When I was eight years old, I watched my grandmother on my mom's side be diagnosed with spleen cancer and quickly deteriorate. She decided she wasn't interested in chemotherapy or radiation, and remembered a time when she had been living in New York City across from a doctor she thought was crazy at the time. He was healing cancer by putting people on a strict nutritarian diet, where you only allow foods to enter your body that contain the maximum nutrition possible. That means their ANDI (Aggregate Nutrient Density Index) score is in the first column . Check out this chart to see what foods make the cut:
It's essentially vegan, though NOT totally, and it's about getting rid of all the bullshit around food and diet and subtracting, which is what most people's mindsets about food are based on, and instead focusing on ADDING the good stuff, to the point where you just naturally don't have room anymore for the bad.
Anyway. My grandma remembered this and got in contact with the doctor. His name was Dr. Max Gerson, from Germany. I don't know the full story, and neither does my grandma, but apparently he was banned in the United States, because his therapy would have put the entire cancer industry out of business. She started on the treatment, and soon after, her cancer was GONE. Read her full story here:
http://gerson.org/gerpress/joyce-stage-4-non-hodgkins-lymphoma-recovery/
It was a miracle. Often, people don't believe me when I tell them. But sometimes, sometimes, it sparks interest and inspires them to eat better, connect more with family, and live a healthier life. Dr. Gerson doesn't have all the answers, but it's important to remember that nobody else does either. And this - eating food with maximum nutrition - makes a heck of a lot more sense to me than poisoning your body with chemicals.
This drastically changed the way my family ate. My Mom, the most important person in my life, changed her diet a lot but also didn't want to mess up her life, and didn't want to force it on us either. She had had serious health issues in the past, and around 12 years later, was worried she had liver disease from years of pushing herself too hard (she's a psychiatrist at Harvard University, attended the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Columbia before that. She's a hard worker if I've every known one). Anyway, all that prestigious education only got her so far in terms of her own health. The adventurous woman that she is, she spent one month in Nepal after doing a test to see if she had liver disease. Her thought process was, "If I don't have liver disease, I'm going on this trip. If I DO have liver disease, I'm going on this trip." That still makes me shiver a little.
My diet started to change during this time. I realized that gluten made me feel really sick and heavy, and that dairy didn't agree with my system either. I dappled in vegetarianism and veganism here and there, but nothing was extremely exciting or easy to stick with until I really started thinking about nutritarianism.
DISCLAIMER this blog DOES NOT promote any one kind of eating besides mindful eating! It's just a way of letting you know what's out there and my story. The WHOLE POINT is everyone's different and I encourage you to know your body enough to know what that is.
That's it for now! Thanks for reading!
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| ANDI scores table: http://www.nutritionnutontherun.com/2014/03/20/nutrient-density-andi-superfoods/ |
Anyway. My grandma remembered this and got in contact with the doctor. His name was Dr. Max Gerson, from Germany. I don't know the full story, and neither does my grandma, but apparently he was banned in the United States, because his therapy would have put the entire cancer industry out of business. She started on the treatment, and soon after, her cancer was GONE. Read her full story here:
http://gerson.org/gerpress/joyce-stage-4-non-hodgkins-lymphoma-recovery/
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My Grandma, Joyce Forsythe, at age 74, after surviving cancer on Dr. Gerson's therapy
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It was a miracle. Often, people don't believe me when I tell them. But sometimes, sometimes, it sparks interest and inspires them to eat better, connect more with family, and live a healthier life. Dr. Gerson doesn't have all the answers, but it's important to remember that nobody else does either. And this - eating food with maximum nutrition - makes a heck of a lot more sense to me than poisoning your body with chemicals.
This drastically changed the way my family ate. My Mom, the most important person in my life, changed her diet a lot but also didn't want to mess up her life, and didn't want to force it on us either. She had had serious health issues in the past, and around 12 years later, was worried she had liver disease from years of pushing herself too hard (she's a psychiatrist at Harvard University, attended the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Columbia before that. She's a hard worker if I've every known one). Anyway, all that prestigious education only got her so far in terms of her own health. The adventurous woman that she is, she spent one month in Nepal after doing a test to see if she had liver disease. Her thought process was, "If I don't have liver disease, I'm going on this trip. If I DO have liver disease, I'm going on this trip." That still makes me shiver a little.
My diet started to change during this time. I realized that gluten made me feel really sick and heavy, and that dairy didn't agree with my system either. I dappled in vegetarianism and veganism here and there, but nothing was extremely exciting or easy to stick with until I really started thinking about nutritarianism.
DISCLAIMER this blog DOES NOT promote any one kind of eating besides mindful eating! It's just a way of letting you know what's out there and my story. The WHOLE POINT is everyone's different and I encourage you to know your body enough to know what that is.
That's it for now! Thanks for reading!
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