What type of cancer did you have and when were you diagnosed?
Stage 3 colon cancer, December 2003.
What were your symptoms?
Sharp and aching abdominal pain a few times per day, low energy, slight anemia, some rectal bleeding, dark stool.
Did you have surgery?
Yes. I had surgery on December 30th 2003. I had a right colectomy. 1/3 of my colon was removed along with a golf ball sized tumor and 49 lymph nodes. Four lymphs nodes tested positive for cancer. I did not need a colostomy bag.
Did you have any chemotherapy or radiation treatments?
No, but it was recommended and the oncologist told me I was “insane” if I did not do chemotherapy.
Why did you decide not to do chemotherapy?
Short answer: Chemotherapy is toxic poison. The idea of poisoning my way back to health did not make sense to me.
Chemo destroys your immune system. It makes cancer stem cells resistant and more aggressive. It causes secondary cancers throughout the body. It also can cause permanent damage to your brain, nerves, hearing, heart, liver, bladder, and more.
And it has a grossly exaggerated success rate. That’s the short answer…
Read this post about radiation
What was your diet like before cancer?
Cooked food, processed food, microwaved food, fast food, and junk food every day. I did not party, or smoke and rarely drank alcohol, but I ate whatever I wanted. Because I was thin I thought I was healthy. I was also in a high stress work environment.
What was your anti-cancer diet exactly?
PHASE ONE:
I adopted a raw vegan diet beginning in January 2004 after reading God’s Way To Ultimate Health by George Malkmus.
Upon rising I drank a 12-16 oz of distilled water.
Then I juiced enough carrots, celery, beet and ginger to make 64 oz. That’s eight 8oz servings that I drank throughout the day, nearly every day for the next couple years. Read my juicing post here
Sometimes I ate a piece of fruit mid morning. Usually a green apple or a grapefruit. (no dried fruit)
I ate a giant salad for lunch every day. Read about my giant salad here
I drank a coconut berry smoothie every afternoon. More about the coconut berry smoothie here
I ate super healthy nuts for snacks
I ate a giant salad again for dinner every day.
Before bed I drank another 12-16 oz of distilled water.
I also did periodic juice fasts during this time.
What supplements did you take?
Read this post for the supplements I took that were recommended by my nutritionist.
PHASE TWO:
After 90 days on the raw vegan diet, John Smothers, an expert in nutrition and natural therapies, added some clean organic meats and some cooked vegetables back to my diet because I was not able to maintain a healthy weight. I was 6’2″ 135 lbs! He recommended three servings per week of either: organic lamb, wild-caught alaskan salmon, organic grass fed beef, or organic free-range chicken.
The raw vegan diet is a very powerful detox and healing diet in the short term, but was not sustainable for me long term. I am an ectomorph with a high metabolism and blood type O. As a result of these factors, my body needs more protein and calories than a raw vegan diet can realistically provide. At the time I was convinced that the raw vegan diet was the best thing for me, but when your life and health are at stake, it is important to set aside any preconceived notions and dogma you have about diet and health and be open to give your body whatever it needs to thrive.
I starting eating clean meat for dinner along with my giant salad and some cooked food like sweet potato, brown rice, quinoa, spinach, asparagus, squash, brussels sprouts, etc.
So from there my diet was 70-80% raw. I kept it simple and basically ate the same thing everyday with a little variation of clean meat and cooked sides at dinner.
This is the diet plan I continued with along with supplements and other natural therapies detailed on this site.
What else did you eat?
Not much else. The point was to keep is as simple as possible and follow the KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid!) model. A lot of raw food recipes are very time consuming to prepare and I don’t really enjoy cooking/food prep so I didn’t experiment with many raw recipes. Giant Salads, Veggie Juice, and Coconut Berry Smoothies all have a quick prep time and I knew exactly what to buy at the grocery every week. No meal planning necessary. There is no better way to get a complete spectrum of nutrients in your body than what I did. Period. So Keep It Simple!
How did you monitor your progress?
I had blood work done every month for the first two years and a few CT scans spaced 6 months apart. This was done by an integrative oncologist, the late Dr. Roy Page MD, who worked in conjunction with my nutritionist John Smothers. I now have bloodwork done about once a year and I also have a colonoscopy every 4 years.
I have cancer, what should I do?
I strongly urge you to take control of your health by radically changing your diet and lifestyle first before submitting to surgery, chemo, and radiation. Chemo, radiation and some surgeries are very destructive methods and can have irreversible consequences.
Read my posts on chemotherapy here
Read the books and watch the movies listed on my resources page.
Are you a Christian?
Yes I am Christian. I give all praise and glory to the Lord Jesus Christ for my life and health. He is my savior and healer.
I sought the Lord and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears. (Psalm 34:4)
Occasionally I’m attacked by people who like to say things like, “You can’t use anecdotal evidence” or “You were just lucky”, or “How dare you question evidence-based medicine” or “Shame on you for telling people not to do chemo” etc.
The human body, just like nature, is Intelligently Designed to work in perfect order.
You have 70-100 trillion cells in your body, each cell is more complex that anything man has made!
Do you think that 100 trillion cells work together in perfect harmony on accident, by chance?
It is the body’s brilliant attempt to save your life!
Everything the body needs to thrive and heal can be found in nature, specifically whole plant and animal food from the earth.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.That’s a SCIENTIFIC LAW OF NATURE just like gravity.
Only by working with gravity can man fly. Any attempt to ignore or defy gravity will result in failure.
When you abide by the Laws of Nature you give your body the ability to heal.
For the skeptics: If you do even the smallest amount of research you will find that chemotherapy is for the most part ineffective for all but three cancers: childhood leukemia, testicular, and hodgkins lymphoma. And even for those the survival rates are dismal. This information is on my site and it abounds in hundreds of published medical industry studies. Go to pubmed and learn something from the REAL scientific evidence that you have not seen.
When an oncologist tells a patient that their particular cancer has been shown to “RESPOND” to a particular drug, what that really means is it that the drug has shown to shrink tumors by 50% for 4 weeks. That’s it. No remission. No cure. Just 50% tumor shrinkage for 4 weeks. That’s what they industry calls “RESPONDING”. Look it up!
Every oncologist knows this, but most are trapped in a system that pays them HIGH six figures to keep doing exactly what they are doing, despite the dismal results.
There are many courageous MDs just like him who have left the brutal and barbaric “cut poison burn” cancer treatment and are getting phenomenal results.
Dr. Thomas Lodi, Dr Nicholas Gonzalez, Dr. James Forsythe, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynsky, just to name a few.
Nutrition and natural therapies will NEVER be used instead of pharmaceutical drugs. For one simple reason: They cannot be patented and are not profitable. Wake up ! There are over 1,000 drug company lobbyists in Washington DC alone.
It’s a conspiracy of greed with continued effort to maintain control over a mega billion dollar medical industry.
With the exception of trauma cure, the entire medical industry is built on three lies: that you have no control over your health, that you are essentially a victim of good or bad luck, and that you cannot heal yourself.
“Think about what your blog is doing”
I know exactly what it’s doing. It’s waking people up and giving them the power and information to heal themselves. Read the natural survivor stories and comments on my site. They are incredible!
Again, luck has nothing to do with it.
I’m definitely not a genius and I haven’t discovered a miracle cure, because there never will be a “cure” in the pharmaceutical sense.
That’s the biggest lie of all.
The body creates cancer and only the body can cure itself of cancer.
I’m just a regular guy, but I’m one of thousands of regular people who have rejected toxic pharmaceutical drugs, taken control of their health, and radically transformed their life.
Anyone can do what I did!
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