Cancer Remission

There have been stuides that looked at this (not prospective and randomized) that do NOT support macrobiotic diets keeping cancer in remission. That said, if a macrobiotic diet makes a patient feel 'good' and gives them some control, then the mind body connection may very help that particular patient. There is no proof that a macrobiotic diet is harmful.

You are on the right track. You have had the most appropriate surgery for risk reduction. Exercise is extremely important and I commend you for including exercise in your survivor lifestyle. It has been shown that even moderate physical activity improves survival. The study reported in JAMA 2005;293:2479-2486,looked at breast cancer survival and physical activity measured in Metabolic Equivalent Task (MET) hours. Three MET hours was equivalent to walking for one hour at between 2 and 2.9 mph. Women who exercised for 3 to 8.9 MET hours per week had a 20% lower death rate, whereas those who exercised for 9 to 14.9 MET hours weekly had a 50% lower death rate. Those are impressive numbers, and if a new drug could achieve such results, it would be flying off the shelves.

Yes, I'd be happy to.

To recap, I study and analyze cases of Non-Allopathic Remission, which are cancer remissions that occur either without Western (allopathic) medicine, or after allopathic medicine has failed to remit the disease. They are rare, and not always permanent, but they are nevertheless (in my opinion) still worth studying, because they have the potential to reveal how and why cancer goes away.

My exploratory research - which means it should not be generalized to a larger population - showed that, among the 20 exceptional survivors that I found and interviewed, six actions were common among almost all of them. They were:
1) Dietary changes (more veggies and whole foods; less meat, sugars, dairy)
2) Herbal and vitamin supplementation
3) Releasing repressed emotions
4) Increasing love and joy
5) Using intuition to help inform medical decisions
6) Deepening spirituality

It will take many years and a lot of funding before we can determine definitively whether or not these actions have any significant effect on cancer survival. However, in the meantime, these actions have not been shown to cause harm (although herbs and vitamins must be medically supervised), and the initial research shows that they may improve immune function.

Three underlying beliefs about cancer always emerged from my 20 interviews. They were:
1) To remove cancer, you must change the underlying conditions in the body that allow it to thrive.
2) Illness indicates a blockage or "slowness" on either the physical, mental, or spiritual level. Health, on the other hand, represents a state of movement or freedom.
3) There is a body-mind-spirit interaction that can be capitalized on for healing purposes.

That's a brief summary of my research so far. I will be describing it in more detail in my upcoming book.

Hope that's helpful,
Kelly Turner, PhD
www.ShuniyaHealing.com
Twitter @ShuniyaHealing