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WHOLENESS

or India because we don’t have one for tests?
locally. That was at the end of 2017. Everything is okay. Yes I do and I
We took about three months to found a functional medicine prac-
What functional medicine put paperwork and funds together titioner. She had gone through her
does is look at the root cause and went off to India. The hospital own cancer journey and her treated
keeps the sample of the tumor for
herself the same way, furthered her
of your disease, chronic ill- about ten years in case they want to knowledge, went back and did some
nesses, what started it in the test or something and as a patient training on functional medicine and
first place in order to know you can ask for it, so I decided to go now is helping others as well. We are
walking that journey together and
with it to rule out doubt.
how to treat. Yes we can re- she is monitoring my progress. What
verse it with nutrition and We traveled in March of 2018 to functional medicine does is look
everything but what was the Mumbai and met the doctor there at the root cause of your disease,
who, on seeing my file said he
chronic illnesses, what started it in
trigger? recognized my doctor. He ordered a the first place in order to know how
fresh batch of tests. The tests on the to treat. Yes we can reverse it with
ing for a nutritional based doctor lump came back positive showing nutrition and everything but what
who would understand what I was that it was what they had said earlier. was the trigger? I have been walking
trying to do and be able to support The PET scan came back com- with her and have done some other
it, but I happened on that later. pletely clear. He was baffled. When tests, unfortunately some of these
The six months came due and I I had seen him before the tests and tests are not available locally but
went for the test. I went in to this I told him what I was doing he was that’s not to say that people can’t get
room where they have the big MRI like, “You’re just torturing yourself, well using a change in diet. That’s
machine and the technician pushed there’s no need to have done all of the basis.
the bed into the machine and came this.” I’m already small in frame and
back after a few minutes and said, you can imagine on that diet, I had What would your advice be
“On what side again did you say?” shrunk to nothingness. So when he to someone who has recently
For me I was freaking out because was examining me he was just seeing received a diagnosis that has
I was like this thing now has spread skin and bones. After seeing the test terrified them?
over the whole body! He can’t tell results, he was surprised, but he was I would say it’s not a death sentence,
where it has started from and where under obligation to write down a the bible says in the book of Peter,
it is going. He went back and came prescription and give a recommend- God has given us everything for life
out again and said, “In my opin- ed course of treatment, which he and godliness so He’s made every-
ion I’m not really seeing anything did. I asked him whether if I had thing available here, not in just the
but we’ll send the report to your done absolutely nothing, the cancer west. Getting well doesn’t mean that
doctor.” would have spread and he said, we have to adopt everything from
“Most definitely.” So I said, “So I the west. We have local solutions, we
So, very excited, I went to see the am doing something right.” But he even have local herbalists who are
doctor and she said, “This is a very didn’t want to admit it. able to walk with people and guide
good report.” When the report got them through local protocols to get
there it said they see something Because of my weight I had also well. The thing is you have to be
small and recommend a biopsy, so made an appointment with a nutri- brave. Society isn’t very welcoming
I felt a bit deflated but the doctor tionist there to guide me on what of alternative therapies but do your
said “these guys don’t have your to do to put on some weight. They research and be brave and take that
clinical history, they don’t know had seen me as well before tests and course of action there is hope, there
what it is that you’ve been doing looked at me skeptically when I told is life after illness.
this is just scar tissue that remained them w hat I was doing, like they
from the surgery.” I was excited; had never heard of it. When I came Video interview link:
my siblings were like, “How do we back with my results they couldn’t https://youtu.be/6ZWL7nMEsDg
know for sure that it’s gone?” She believe it. One even took pictures of
said I would need to do a PET scan my scans to show their colleague.
to determine that for sure and this
was possible either in South Afrika And since then? Do you still go

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