Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Fighting the Big C with another C

My mother has liver cancer. It in fact has metastasized to her bones. Since there really is no cure for liver cancer, she opted to save the money to be spent on chemotherapy and just enjoy her life drug-free.

For those who may be wondering, no she is not an alcoholic. In fact I have guzzled more wine and beer than she has in our shared lifetime. One probable cause for her liver cancer is the number of medication that she has to take everyday. She is also diabetic and hypertensive and takes more or less a combination of ten different tablets or so in a day.

The liver functions as a sieve or filter for our body, hence anything that we take in, it will pass through our liver. A doctor who promotes healthy living said that one should limit medication intake to no more than four tablets a day. So that makes my mother a very likely candidate of someone who abuses their liver with the toxins that they pile up inside their bodies.

Someone gave me a book about the Raw Food Diet. The Raw Food Diet consists of taking more than a pint of raw vegetable or fruit juice combined with only raw food as the sole source of nutrition. One of the wonder foods advertised was raw carrot juice.

I did a little research on my own and have found numerous articles about raw carrot juice and its ability to cure cancer. I need not go far to ask if it works because the father of my friend who gave me this book was cured of his prostate cancer after taking the raw food diet.

So now I am trying this diet of raw carrot juice with my mother. I have not removed cooked food from her diet for now because I fear that she may get weak. But I will keep you, my dear readers posted if ever this works.