I’m Not Saying We’ve Cured Cancer, but My Husband Has “No Detectable Abnormality”

The cancer has gone away

My husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October 2021. A scan identified a cluster of abnormal cells that turned out to be cancer.

It was a shock, but the good news was that it was a slow growing type, which ‘might not do anything’ so we were in a good position to experiment with an unconventional health regime. The consultant wanted to monitor it, not treat it, because it’s at such an early stage.

Apparently prostate cancer is common and not everyone who has it knows they’ve got it. Some people die from something else with a slow growing tumour that’s never caused any issues.

Nonetheless, we’d rather not have cancer, because we also know people who’ve died from prostate cancer. And if left to its own devices, it could turn nasty. So we decided to go onto an anti-cancer regime.

Anti-cancer regime

My husband and I have been following this regime together for 18 months. The results have been promising recently - his blood marker for prostate cancer has been going down.

He has regular blood tests to measure the PSA (prostate specific antigen), an indicator of cancer. He’s been charting the results, and they’ve followed a broad downward trajectory. Along the way, they went up a bit and down a bit, but there was a general downward trend. His last PSA came back ‘normal’.

My husband’s latest MRI scan has just been reviewed. The consultant said there are no detectable abnormalities on his latest scan. To be clear, the abnormal cells they identified 18 months ago are no longer showing up on his MRI scan.

Perhaps spontaneous remission is a thing with this type of cancer, as the consultant didn’t seem to be particularly fazed by this result and didn’t offer any explanation. My husband didn’t ask for an explanation because even though the consultant speaks good English, my husband feels he doesn’t understand much of what is asked — questions are often met with confusion.

Nonetheless, we like to think our regime may have contributed to this positive outcome. The consultant says diet makes no difference and has been quick to reject any suggestion that a super-healthy lifestyle might be able to affect the outcome of what happens next.

We’ll keep doing what we’re doing and continue to monitor the situation. It’s no great hardship.

What we’ve been doing

After receiving my husband’s cancer diagnosis, we embarked on an 80% raw vegan diet in January 2022. Basically, we have a huge salad with everything, and a small vegan centrepiece which is cooked. We have raw fruit salads for pudding. We aim for meals as close to 100% raw as reasonably possible without it meaning we don’t enjoy our meals.

There are many anecdotal accounts of raw food diets having a beneficial effect on cancer, but little in the way of scientific studies, except for Max Gerson’s Therapy, described here, which is more intense than our current regime. However, an abundance of anecdotal evidence was enough for us to decide to experiment and draw our own conclusions.

We’ve banned added sugar from our diets because dietary sugar feeds cancer cells. We do enjoy fruit and have some dried fruit, but we steer clear of juices because they create a natural sugar rush. I’ve turned some leftover fruit juice into ice lollies, so we have a small homemade ice lolly as a treat occasionally — that’s all.

We have saunas twice a week to sweat out toxins and boost our immunity. We shower straight afterwards. Having fewer saunas last summer coincided with an upward blip in my husband’s PSA test results, so we’re now trying to keep the saunas up all year round. Yes, we bought one. It’s a far-infrared sauna. You can get them second hand on ebay in great condition.

My husband is taking high potency nutritional supplements, designed for people ‘under stress’ or ‘run down’.

No alcohol, no junk food, minimal processed food — a bit of vegan cheese.

We’ve banned carcinogens from our home. We eradicated as many as possible from our home years ago, but have stepped up this effort. It includes banning most chemicals, cosmetics, food in plastic containers where it’s possible to get glass, anything toxic.

We take long walks on days when he’s not working, which is four days a week.

So far, so good.

How we got to this place

I’ve been reading about healing for years, after getting a nasty fungal infection, caused by antibiotics, that I cannot shift. I started to read about boosting the immune system naturally, and eventually put myself on an anti-cancer regime, to see if it would get rid of the fungal infection. It didn’t. But reinstating a similar regime seems to be having a positive effect on my husband, so it was a useful exercise.

I’m also aware that our own immune systems kill abnormal cells everyday. Our bodies are constantly fighting and killing cells that could turn out to be cancerous. So perhaps if caught early enough, it’s possible to give this natural process a helping hand. It seems to be working.

We’ve been following a healthy diet for years and according to some books, we were already on an anti-cancer diet, but clearly, it wasn’t enough. Going 80% raw vegan took things a step further towards a diet for optimal nutrition and healing.

No medical interventions

We weren’t offered any medical interventions, so there were no difficult decisions about whether to accept surgery or toxic therapies for cancer. While medics just wanted to monitor it, we wanted to eliminate it, so they monitored it while we took action using the only means we knew how — with a focus on high levels of nutrition and detoxification.

So far, it’s looking good, but of course, it might come back. We can only keep doing what we’re doing and continue to monitor the situation.

What we eat

We have a varied diet with lots of different fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts, pulses and seeds. In particular…

• Loads of salad and fresh fruit.
• Some raw vegetables on our salad, like sugar snap peas, red onion, and sprigs of broccoli.
• Sultanas make salads taste better.
• My husband makes a killer aubergine and lentil moussaka.
• Fresh homemade bread for our lunches, with huge salads and vegan soft cheese.
• Muesli for breakfast — I asked him to switch from peanut butter on toast because of the aflatoxin (carcinogen!) in peanut butter and his liking for slightly burnt (carcinogen!) toast!
• Soya milk on our cereal and in drinks. Soya kefir yogurt on our fruit salads.
• A source of vitamin B12 is very important on any vegan diet.
• It helps to familiarise yourself with known carcinogens to avoid them, but he is on medications for other issues, so everything is a balance of risk and benefit.

That’s about it. Do feel free to ask any questions. But I’m not a doctor and cannot give medical advice. I can only relay our experiences.

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