Cut, Burn, or Poison that Cancer?

[Sheehan Training]

This past Saturday I had the opportunity to give a nutrition presentation to members of America’s Best Defense, a Mixed Martial Arts studio owned and operated by Master Paul Garcia in Attleboro Falls. In stressing the importance of proper nutrition, I mentioned the numerous studies that have been done on the effects of nutrition when treating cancer. I also stated that unfortunately the conventional medical community rarely employs these methods, and would rather “cut, burn, and poison” the cancer, or in other words, use surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy to treat the disease.

Now I am not against employing all knowledge available when trying to save your life, but I do feel that holistic medicine is not given proper credit when it comes to the many times that alternative medicine has saved lives.

I open up the Sunday newspaper, and there is a full page article on a comedian from Tyngsboro named Kevin Knox who has recently beaten cancer. My mouth is agape as I read the details of his story.

“Five years ago he was told he had stage 4 malignant melanoma, and there is no stage 5,” Knox said. I was given three months to live. I was sitting there feeling like somebody shot me in the head with a stun gun. I said to the doctor,’What can I do about this?’ He said, ‘Well we’ll amputate your leg and we’ll pull out your lymph nodes and we’ll do chemo and radiation and then we’ll do interferon.’ And I’m sitting there hearing this, and I’m just shattered. I said, ‘What will that get me?’ And he said, ‘Well definitely a year. Maybe two years.’”

The article states that at this point, Kevin had stopped listening. His parents and his sister all had cancer, and he felt their deaths were due to the treatment as much as the disease, and this prompted him to study the illness.

“I knew I wasn’t going there. I was gonna do something alternative,” he said. “I did a thing called the raw-food diet – eating uncooked foods, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. I did that for two and a half years and I took a ton of supplements. There are so many ways to keep interfering with the cancer’s progress, so you keep doing that and after a while, your body gets healthy and wipes it out. I ran five miles this morning, I’m going to the gym later to lift, and tonight I’m dancing!” he said.

This is not bad for a guy who five years ago was told by a doctor that he had 3 months to live. And he didn’t have to cut, burn, or poison himself once…