Diagnosis DEATH
An Optional Approach
Most people who have never had a diagnosis of a deadly disease and your ultimate death/dying really cannot appreciate the patient’s stress. While most of us all know we will eventually die, most folks don’t have it presented in graphic detail by a ‘medical professional’.
The issue is that very often, that death sentence is rendered because the patient refuses the diabolical ‘treatment options’ presented by that so-called medical professional. Those treatments often would cost ten$ of thousand$ of dollars and more. Interestingly enough, those options usually seldom, IF EVER, offer anything from the list of Alternative Treatments that are not condoned/blessed by the ‘Medical Profession’.
Yes, I DO speak from experience. I had to deal with that Diagnosis of DEATH rendered by several oncologists I consulted back in 2010. Each and every option presented involved a diabolical, dangerous treatment program that had/included absolutely horrendous side effects. I had seen my poor/dear father suffer and die from those very side effects I was attempting to avoid. But not a single ‘doctor’ ever offered anything at all.
I received Much Better treatment alternatives and options from TV! Can you believe that? A TV show on PBS called the ‘Incurables’ presented better and very successful options to death than any of the ‘doctors’ I consulted. That formed the basis of our (yes, my lovely wife supported me 100%) research agenda.
It wasn’t that difficult to actually just ask some questions on the internet. Wow, a multitude of responses and search results resulted in a plethora of viable alternatives to the diabolical treatment programs proposed by the medical professionals I consulted. Many were obviously ploys for money, while others had no/little scientific support.
Interestingly, one of the most common alternative approaches revolved in NUTRITION. Yep, what we eat every day. Many were different approaches and various combinations but the most common revolved around a Whole Food Plant Based Lifestylediet. You know, not a single oncologist or doctor EVER asked about what I ate or if I exercised. NOT A ONE!
After many weeks of research (we continue after 15 years!), I identified a pretty wonderful lady named Charlotte Gerson and her video “The Gerson Miracle” and it moved me greatly. In addition, we identified Dr. T. Collin Campbell who wrote the China Study that pretty much supported the basics found in the Gerson Approach. I was astounded that Dr. Max Gerson was actually curing people back in the 1950’s and published a summary of his results in 50 different case studies called ‘A Cancer Therapy’.
Dr. Gerson cured Albert Schweitzer’s wife of lung tuberculosis and even Dr. Schweitzer’s own Type II diabetes. Dr. Gerson established a special skin tuberculosis treatment program at the Munich University Hospital. In a carefully monitored clinical trial, 446 out of 450 skin tuberculosis patients treated with the Gerson diet recovered completely. In 1946, Gerson demonstrated recovered patients before the Pepper-Neely Congressional Subcommittee, during hearings on a bill to fund research into cancer treatment. That was pretty much ignored; as most nutritional approaches to disease/illness are today.
After this research and reading the China Study by Dr. Campbell (a long read but so interesting and supportive) I decided to give it a try. I decided to fully reject any/all traditional medical approaches and embarked upon a personal rendition of ‘The Gerson Therapy’. I have written a lot about this and published several books and web sites as well as been published in several medical journals.
All this is offered as a background to my lifestyle change and my Revolutionary Dietary Modification; which I won’t discuss here/now. Still, in the back of my mind that Death Sentence lurked. I was over 60 and for all my life I had believed that ‘Doctors’ were near godlike in their abilities to heal people. My parents believed them when they forced my younger brother and I to get our tonsils and adenoids removed and earlier my appendix removed after a pelvic rupture. What the hell, they were cutting in there anyway, why not? All this was in my mind as I began to reform my opinion of the ‘modern medical industry’. So, I still had a lurking fear that I was dying and began to adjust to that belief even as I changed my lifestylediet and lifestyle in general.
So that belief and as I began to meditate during my new yoga practice, I discussed this with my wife and began to prepare for that eventual end. But I wasn’t going down without a fight. I just had too much evidence/proof that this approach WORKED; at least for many and I prayed it would for me as well.
The following year or so was filled with amazing times as my body responded so well to this simple dietary adjustment. Still thinking I was dying, my wife and I embarked upon a 43-day, 10,000-mile road trip across the Western USA. Learning to hike and other wonderous adventures in our Nations and State Parks. Upon returning home, I realized that maybe, Just MAYBE, I wasn’t going to die!
That is when I decided to devote the rest of my life, however long it would continue, to informing, counseling and advising others on just how wonderful, healthy and curative this lifestylediet could be. With that acceptance I found a peace of mind and adoption of a way of LIFE and Living that I would relish every day I awoke to a new sunrise and NOT Fear Death and the fate we all will face. Embracing the fullness of Life and disregarding the needless fear of death was something that emboldened me to author papers, write books and publish some 30 or so web sites. Each web site focused on a different aspect of Life, Health & Longevity.
My wife, Chef Nancy, and I continue to offer to help others realize the wonders this lifestylediet can offer; as it has for us. So my friend if you or a loved one has received that deadly threat of death by your ‘doctor’ please, PLEASE do some research and consider that This Decision is the MOST CRITICAL one you may make for the rest of your life!
Live Long & Prosper!