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hello, I am new to this list, please let me introduce myself...

my name is Lara, I am a thirty year old American woman currently

living in Scotland with

my new Irish husband (I have also lived in the San Francisco Bay

area and grew up in New York State). We are hoping to start a family

soon and are committed to living in the most natural way possible,

through

small-scale organic farming and a simple old-fashioned lifestyle.

In the past I have been: macrobiotic, vegan, a natural

hygeinist, and a raw-foodist, among other things, but I currently

to a more relaxed

dietary philosophy loosely based on paleolithic nutrition and Dr.

Mercola's " no Grain Diet " . I have used and seen doctors proficient

in: irridology, homeopathy, kineseology / muscle testing,

acupuncture / Chinese medicine, colonic irrigation, naturopathy, and

herbalism. My husband and I are fairly healthy and do

not need to lose weight, but we do have some long-standing digestive

and

skin issues, and some food intolerances. I have generally assumed

these problems areat least partially candida-related. Currently we

are trying to conceive, and plan to home-school our future children.

 

I just recently found out that a relative of mine has a serious

cancer. My husbands mother was cured of

breast cancer through surgery and chemo (a botched job that left her

with a horrible infection that took ages to heal, she felt it did

more

harm than good) and vitamin b-17 (laetrile) and bitter apricot seeds

(where she thinks the real healing came from). I am currently hoping

to

find some testimonials from others who have cured themselves of

cancer

through natural means, so that I can better advise my relative (who

lives in Canada.) Because I have no prior personal experience with

cancer in my family, I have done little research in this particular

area. I am interested in laetrile/B-17 and the methods of Hulda

Clark, but the jury's still out for me on whether these treatments

have proved effective enough in cancer treatment to warrant my

endorsement of them to my relative, who is not particularly

experienced with alternative health care. I know that if I were to

be diagnosed with cancer tomorrow, my first approach to healing

myself would be through fasting, supplementation, and a strict

avoidance of all sugars and processed/ non-organic foods, but I do

not have enough faith in the efiicacy of my own methods to recommend

them to someone else in grave danger. I used to have that kind of

conviction, but after 12 years of self-experimentation with diet,

supplements, naturopaths, etc. I remain open, but less certain and

more sceptical. I have always felt that when in doubt it is safest

to stick with the natural and common-sensical ways things have

traditionally been done in the past - farming, child-rearing,

medicating, etc., and I fervantly hope that nature does hold the

remedies for all ills in simple and accessable forms.

Good books I have read recently: Phillip Day's The Mind Game, and

Richard Milton's Alternative Science.