Finally a Book of TRUE Educational Value

Hi Bill,

Let me start off by telling you that I don't have cancer (at least not to my knowledge), although I may send in a urine sample anyway! I found your website while doing internet research on another health topic. I've been on a very interesting journey for the last eight months, and when I stumble on to a website such as yours, it's never an accident.

I had abdominal surgery on April 1, 2009. This was unplanned, or "impromptu" as I like to call it, surgery. I'd had significant abdominal pain on my right side, and all their medical tests showed nothing. I had two CTs in a week (one with contrast and one without), blood work, etc. Essentially, I let Frankenstein "go in and take a look." They did find a problem. I had an adhesion for no known reason. It was repaired, and by all accounts I should have been out of the hospital after one night. Wrong. Very wrong.

The surgery was the easy part. I was 30 at the time of my surgery, and I was in the hospital for 4 nights. I had more drugs than I can count. I had this feeling while I was there that I was simply getting sicker and sicker, but I was too drugged to make sound decisions. My mother is a nurse, and she was there continually. She did her best. I had a paralytic ileus in the hospital - complete digestive system shut down. I imagine some of the cancer survivors you have worked with have experienced this most uncomfortable condition. The ileus wasn't the worst of it. After I was released I developed horrific ulcerative colitis. I have never had ulcerative colitis before, and believe it was a response to the big pharma drugs. I have never in my life experienced pain like that, and I begin questioning our conventional medical system. Thank you for addressing this particular topic so readily in your book.

While in the throws of what I now understand to be detoxification, I looked at all the medications prescribed to me, and God said, stop. I stopped. I quit all narcotics immediately, and thus began a very, very long journey. I'm still on it. That's how I found your book. My digestive system never fully recovered, and through the help of some alternative care, I've learned that my nervous system has remained hyper-reactive. The result of this hyper-reactivity is significant abdominal pain. I became a vegan in July of 2009, and I follow a pretty strict diet of mostly raw foods. I actually follow your cancer protocol diet nearly to a T! I imagine that I was highly acidic, as evidenced by the colitis, night sweats, fever, etc. I couldn't leave the house. I could barely stand up. It was pure hell, and I never want to go back there again. Thus, I started a journey into wellness.

However, I've become stuck. I have an exercise program designed by my Physical Therapist (I've always been active and so being so inactive is very hard for me), and I regularly see my chiropractor for the Neuro-Modular Technique (NMT). If you haven't heard of this, it may be useful for some cancer patients. It's pulled up easily through a google search. It is what started my detox, and as unpleasant as it was, it may have been the beginning of God's saving grace. But still, I'm stuck. I am highly functional. I can go to work, and I haven't had a sick day since April. But I'm stuck. I don't get better. I have flare ups, but I also don't get any worse. I've been praying and searching for a better answer. And then I found your book...

It takes a lot to inspire me. Perhaps that's the researcher in me! I have a Ph.D., and I only tell you that so that you know that I'm used to evaluating and reading evidence. (I regularly tell people that my Ph.D. doesn't impress me that much!) In the end, truthfully, I am more interested in the experiences of people with great courage. Your book does a wonderful job of making "research" accessible to all people. Beautiful and inspired in my opinion!

When I found the part in your book about Emotional Trauma and Stress, it hit me. My chiropractor asked me yesterday what might lead me to be hyper-sensitive. And I said, so the question is really "What am I holding on to?" I had a sense that my colon, and to a lesser extent the rest of my digestive system, is holding on to some very negative emotions. I have ordered The Emotion Code and a magnet. And my husband and I have started following your prevention protocol. I have to be very slow in adding new supplements/food to my life. One at a time. But I'm working on it.

My husband's parents and my parents are all still living. My parents have various degenerative diseases, and they are unlikely to listen to alternatives to their boxed food way of life. But statistically, one of the four of them will be diagnosed with cancer. I feel prepared to be the advocate. Thank you for making that possible.

I was headed down a dark road before my surgery. Poor diet (I was a "bad" vegetarian so to speak), acidosis, and ultimately, I believe cancer. And although I'm not a cancer survivor now, and I'm hoping I won't ever have to utter those words, I wanted to say thank you for writing such an intelligent, well researched, and accessible book. It is the MOST IMPORTANT "health" book I have ever read. I wanted you to know that you are helping those of us who haven't yet been diagnosed with cancer just as much as those who have. I will be using the tools for the rest of my life. I just had some CC/FO!

I deeply admire that you turned a very sad event in your life into such positive learning for so many.

God Bless You and Your Wife in 2010!

Carla