cancer food bible - Anti-Cancer, A New Way of Life

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If you have been diagnosed with cancer, or someone you love has been, the “must read” food bible is David Servan-Schreiber’s  Anti-Cancer, A New Way of Life.    This is a surprisingly readable handbook for eating to “not” feed the cancer while you fuel your body.   There are so many amazing stories in this book that it is hard for me to pick one out.   Servan-Schreiber is an MD and PhD as well as a cancer survivor, and makes the point that if you don’t change your life and the way you deal with it, the possibility of survival dramatically declines.    A friend asked him (after his successful cancer treatment) what he’d done to change his life to avoid recurrence.   The idea that he needed to change his life hadn’t even occurred to him.   When his cancer recurred, he got the message.   This book is an excellent chronicle of our changing (changed) environment and how it has changed the food we eat, including simple steps to minimize impact in your life.   Every person should read the book whether they’ve looked cancer in the face or not.

The Cleanse - aftermath

Quick update on “The Cleanse”   I feel great!  I still have a sore place at edge of right rib, but I think that’s a bruise from leaning over a gate!! It was worth it!!   I don’t have that feeling of rocks in the gullet.

My Personal Gall Bladder Cleanse

What I have noticed about Body Talk, a body tapping type of bodywork, is that it is very detoxifying.   While that is usually good, I began to notice that I had a pain under my right rib.   That pain is a classic symptom of gall bladder pain.   Since the gall bladder stores bile for the liver, it is also a great holding place for stones and all kinds of debris.   If my body is detoxifying,  it only makes sense that the liver is detoxing, too – and sending gunk to the gall bladder.   Adding that to our typical American diet which already stresses the gall bladder and liver.   I’ve researched liver/gall bladder cleanses before, but never done one.   Now I have.   I will admit it isn’t fun.   I used a combo of Paul Pitchford’s “Healing with Whole Foods” and Dr. Hulda Clark’s detox programs.    The steps are pretty simple.   Step 1:  eat a lot of apples, preferably green, and drink apple juice for one day.   That softens the stone.   Step 2:  drink a concoction of Epsom salts and water 2 times toward evening (even worse than it sounds!).  That relaxes and opens the bile ducts.    Step 3: drink an olive oil/grapefruit/lemon juice concoction and go to bed.  This purges the liver and moves the stones and junk out of the gall bladder.    This morning I was supposed to drink 2 more drinks of Epsom salts to clean the bowels.   Since that seemed to be happening pretty well with what  I’d already taken, I passed on the grand finale.    Today the program is light eating – fruit, vegetables, whole grains, no fat, meat or dairy.   By tomorrow I’m supposed to feel like a new woman.   I’ll let you know – but the pain in my mid-section is gone.    Liver/gall bladder cleanses are recommended twice a year, according to Dr Hulda.   Maybe that’s enough time to forget how that Epsom salts tastes.

Ps.   I chose not to do an intense analysis of the results, so I have no evidence of stones or other interesting keepsakes.   So don’t ask.  But I do feel better!