I've recently started taking care of my grandmother who has been diagnosed with Thyroid cancer. It has been an on and off problem for 15 years. She has already had all of the conventional treatments multiple times and at this point, there is no more thyroid to be taken out of her system, there is not enough tissue as it is to safely do any more operations to remove the tumors that have taken over her throat. The doctor roughly implied she may only have less than a year left - perhaps a few months. The tumors had been getting so large that it has been difficult for her to swallow - and in order to get anything down she needed lots of coffee and dressing on the whatever food she was eating.
She has been on multiple prescription medications for high blood pressure and cholesterol as well as others to make up for her lack of a thyroid in her body. She even was taking 6 extra strength pain killers daily just to get through the day because she has had severe arthritic pains her joints - due to some previous surgeries after crushing multiple bones in her body from a serious car accident.
At this point, most my of my family had accepted that this is the end of the line for her and that we all just need to enjoy while she is still around.
After spending enough time with my grandmother, I could see that she wasn't quite ready to give up yet. Although the medical world had completely exhausted their resources on her and had nothing left to help her condition, she still had hope.
The very last thing the doctors were telling her to do, was to get a tube in her stomach, so she wouldn't have to worry about if her throat completely closed off.
This also sounded a little jarring to me. I took my grandmother aside one day and asked her, if she would be willing to do something a little different and maybe a little crazy to see if it would have any positive impact on her health.
She agreed.
The program consisted of a week long fast on only vegetable juice.
Today is day 5, and I am honestly astonished by the results.
Through only juiced vegetables and few fruits the following has taken place in the last 5 days.
- She is completely off of her pain medication
-She is quit taking one of her cholesterol pills
-She is more mobile than she has been in a long time
-She has more energy
- She is looking brighter and brighter every day - her skin has taken on a glow!
-She is sleeping through the entire night without waking up at all! - She previously had woken up at least 3-4 times in a night because of all the pain she was in, and usually had to switch between the bed and her recliner to relieve different muscle groups
-the tightness in her neck has been reducing
- even a few of the tumors have felt "lose"
-Her digestive track has been completely cleaned out
- She has lost 9 pounds - she is 5'6 and started out last week at 191 lbs.
-She is swallowing with much less difficulty - she used to wake up in the night and realize that she needed to swallow but took a bit of effort to do so, now she no longer wakes up with this problem.. and doesn't actually wake up at all until morning!
-The swelling in her legs and joints is completely gone! She has no pain, unless she twists in a certain direction or lifts something really heavy- which she wouldn't do anyway.. so for regular movements there is no pain.
-Previously every few days she would have a sharp pain in her neck - as if it the tumor (s) was (were) growing.. and she hasn't been experiencing that.
-She had previously been saying that she is done traveling- and that she won't be going out anywhere anymore because she doesn't want to be burden to anyone. Now she is saying that she is feeling so good that she wants to travel, and visit friends and family who don't live in this state!
She has also been recording her own progress in a little journal, which I think is great. She has been so happy with this week, she is looking forward to more of the program.
I slowly introduced a few solid foods to her in the past couple of days which included : oatmeal and one lentil stew. She didn't seem to have any issues with that, and she has also be eating small amounts of fruit on her own.
Come Monday I will be preparing solid foods for her, most likely consisting of a :
Steamed vegetable
fresh salad - grated carrot/beet/cucumber - whatever I feel like making
vegetable juice
small serving of a whole grain - or a porridge made of the grain.
lentil or bean soup
Greens! and a green smoothie
- this will most likely be too much food for her, but we will see how it goes come this monday, how she is feeling. I think what I will do is suggest a fresh vegetable juice fast 1 day per week.
Already she has been getting a bit of attention from the retirement community she is currently in. One other from the home she is living in his interested in the program.
So this is all very interesting for me.. I am just ecstatic to see such wonderful results.
The book which guided me on juice fast recipes was :
The Juice Lady's Guide to Juicing for Health
by, Cherie Calbom MS
It has some really wonderful recipes!
They mentioned how good artichokes are for cancer in the book, and I was eagerly looking for a juice recipe which included artichokes.
I finally found one and happily made the recipe.. only to find that my juicer almost caught on fire, because of all of the fiber in the vegetable!! I had to do it with extreme care and continuously clean out the juicing filter.
But the funny thing about it was, that they had called for a jerusalem artichoke.. not an artichoke.. ooops.. no wonder.
Anyway. There are many many incredible reads out there on how diet can cure heart disease, diabetes, cancer, high bp, high cholesterol, etc... as well as documentaries.. just check out documentaries on netflix --- there is a whole section on health related ones.. which I recommend them all .. It has really been an eye opener for me to learn that many of our current day ailments are not only preventable but also curable and reversible.
All the best,
May we all have good health
Esther
She has been on multiple prescription medications for high blood pressure and cholesterol as well as others to make up for her lack of a thyroid in her body. She even was taking 6 extra strength pain killers daily just to get through the day because she has had severe arthritic pains her joints - due to some previous surgeries after crushing multiple bones in her body from a serious car accident.
At this point, most my of my family had accepted that this is the end of the line for her and that we all just need to enjoy while she is still around.
After spending enough time with my grandmother, I could see that she wasn't quite ready to give up yet. Although the medical world had completely exhausted their resources on her and had nothing left to help her condition, she still had hope.
The very last thing the doctors were telling her to do, was to get a tube in her stomach, so she wouldn't have to worry about if her throat completely closed off.
This also sounded a little jarring to me. I took my grandmother aside one day and asked her, if she would be willing to do something a little different and maybe a little crazy to see if it would have any positive impact on her health.
She agreed.
The program consisted of a week long fast on only vegetable juice.
Today is day 5, and I am honestly astonished by the results.
Through only juiced vegetables and few fruits the following has taken place in the last 5 days.
- She is completely off of her pain medication
-She is quit taking one of her cholesterol pills
-She is more mobile than she has been in a long time
-She has more energy
- She is looking brighter and brighter every day - her skin has taken on a glow!
-She is sleeping through the entire night without waking up at all! - She previously had woken up at least 3-4 times in a night because of all the pain she was in, and usually had to switch between the bed and her recliner to relieve different muscle groups
-the tightness in her neck has been reducing
- even a few of the tumors have felt "lose"
-Her digestive track has been completely cleaned out
- She has lost 9 pounds - she is 5'6 and started out last week at 191 lbs.
-She is swallowing with much less difficulty - she used to wake up in the night and realize that she needed to swallow but took a bit of effort to do so, now she no longer wakes up with this problem.. and doesn't actually wake up at all until morning!
-The swelling in her legs and joints is completely gone! She has no pain, unless she twists in a certain direction or lifts something really heavy- which she wouldn't do anyway.. so for regular movements there is no pain.
-Previously every few days she would have a sharp pain in her neck - as if it the tumor (s) was (were) growing.. and she hasn't been experiencing that.
-She had previously been saying that she is done traveling- and that she won't be going out anywhere anymore because she doesn't want to be burden to anyone. Now she is saying that she is feeling so good that she wants to travel, and visit friends and family who don't live in this state!
She has also been recording her own progress in a little journal, which I think is great. She has been so happy with this week, she is looking forward to more of the program.
I slowly introduced a few solid foods to her in the past couple of days which included : oatmeal and one lentil stew. She didn't seem to have any issues with that, and she has also be eating small amounts of fruit on her own.
Come Monday I will be preparing solid foods for her, most likely consisting of a :
Steamed vegetable
fresh salad - grated carrot/beet/cucumber - whatever I feel like making
vegetable juice
small serving of a whole grain - or a porridge made of the grain.
lentil or bean soup
Greens! and a green smoothie
- this will most likely be too much food for her, but we will see how it goes come this monday, how she is feeling. I think what I will do is suggest a fresh vegetable juice fast 1 day per week.
Already she has been getting a bit of attention from the retirement community she is currently in. One other from the home she is living in his interested in the program.
So this is all very interesting for me.. I am just ecstatic to see such wonderful results.
The book which guided me on juice fast recipes was :
The Juice Lady's Guide to Juicing for Health
by, Cherie Calbom MS
It has some really wonderful recipes!
They mentioned how good artichokes are for cancer in the book, and I was eagerly looking for a juice recipe which included artichokes.
I finally found one and happily made the recipe.. only to find that my juicer almost caught on fire, because of all of the fiber in the vegetable!! I had to do it with extreme care and continuously clean out the juicing filter.
But the funny thing about it was, that they had called for a jerusalem artichoke.. not an artichoke.. ooops.. no wonder.
Anyway. There are many many incredible reads out there on how diet can cure heart disease, diabetes, cancer, high bp, high cholesterol, etc... as well as documentaries.. just check out documentaries on netflix --- there is a whole section on health related ones.. which I recommend them all .. It has really been an eye opener for me to learn that many of our current day ailments are not only preventable but also curable and reversible.
All the best,
May we all have good health
Esther
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