My decision to become a nutritionist was directly related to
my own experiences using nutrition to cure my breast cancer.
The dietary
changes I made following my diagnosis arguably saved my life, and my decision
not to have surgery was perhaps the most important I ever made. I wanted to get the message out about how
much I was helped by nutritional therapy.
While combatting my own cancer I had learnt a lot about nutrition and
the limitations of conventional medicine, and I wanted to use my knowledge to
help other people.
In November 2006 I passed my examination for nutritional
therapy with over 80 per cent, which I was really pleased with. After Christmas I took the first steps
towards starting my own practice – I put leaflets and business cards in the
local health shops, and gained a few clients as a result. The practice has been gradually building
since.
In February I started my website, Natural Health Benefits, to
help me get the message out. I
dedicated it to my daughter, who was my key reason for setting it up. If just one family didn’t have to suffer as
we had after following medical advice, it would be worthwhile.
The trouble with doctors and cancer treatment is that they
see cancer as a localised malignant disease
– and so they set out to “fix” it by reducing the tumour using drugs,
surgery and radiotherapy. Unfortunately
none of these methods can distinguish between what is healthy tissue and what
is cancerous tissue.
Meanwhile, alternative therapy sees the whole body operating as a system
and a tumour as a sign that something has gone wrong with that system.
Alternative medicine sees the person as the total of body, mind, emotions and
spirit. Treatment is aimed at the whole person: the approach is holistic and helps the body to heal itself by
stimulating the body’s own immune system.
Unfortunately, modern medicine’s approach to
cancer is at loggerheads with the alternative approach, which I think is really
sad. Surely ANY possible cure should be
looked at – no matter where it comes from?