So HI!
My blog is called Debbie Does Raw... and I do eat mostly (90% or so, sometimes 100%) raw foods and have done for about 2 1/2 years now. For the last two years my blood tests for my CLL have been stable.
MY BEFORE: YIKES! Sam was about 2 here I think..
So YEAH RAW! It is the best diet I know to reverse aging, heal illness and flip your disease "ON" switch into a "dimmer switch" setting. Why mess with that?
After my initial success of halving my white blood cell count in five months of raw vegan eating, I kept on doing what I was doing, went to Raw Spirit in Sedona and generally felt super fantastic. I did have a nasty persistent rash all around my eyes, mouth, chin and nose.. could not get rid of it..
Earth Hour 2009
I lost some weight but felt that the way I looked was right for me, about ten lbs less than I weighed most of my adult life. I exercised a lot, lifted weights etc, just was super active and feeling groovy.
After my Oct. 2008 blood test, holding steady at 16K or so.. I got an idea. I got the idea that somehow, someway, I could CURE my disease totally, not just keep it steady but blast it out of my body! So I did a six month experiment, in my human petri dish aka ME.
In this period of time I did regular enemas (yeah at home, party on Garth!) and had 12 professional colonics done and did some Hyperbaric Chamber time just to mix it up.
I set aside my fixation on medjool dates and all things Larabar or involving anything too sweet (easier said than done for me the Major General of Sweet Tooths!)
I did eat fruit, lots of it. And I juiced like always, ate about a thousand salads etc. And I lost a bit more weight. It was pretty rough going at times. Sometimes I had side aches and upset bowels after colonics, so bad I did not eat at all. I kept exercising but did not really see any muscle gains or strength gains.
The moment of truth came at the oncologist office. I was so confident, so excited, so SURE that I would be CURED!! (that word, btw, should be banished. Cure is not a good focus, wellness is the only goal, IMHO) and guess what happened!? I got worse. My white count went up to 19K. Ouch. That hurt. Bad.
Because of this one reason: My Daughter, who needs me to stay healthy...
And as much as I said, just keep swimming just keep swimming, I knew that I must be doing something wrong.
I started looking into CLL deeper, searching for someone who cured themselves of it, who healed on their own. To date, I have only found two people who claim this in the world.
Both had all dental work removed (root canals and mercury fillings etc) and one, Steve Frier used Coral Calcium also. As I have had tons of crowns and root canals, this for me would pretty much mean dentures. . not an option. When I researched the dentist Hessel used in Australia, he stated flat out that "vegetarians/vegan will not benefit from the treatments and they cannot heal properly." Hessels food list contains butter, eggs and other animal products. What? I thought? .. hmmmm...
Mother's Day 2009
and a certain age that I reached last May....
meant there was no time to fool around.. and it was time to consider.. well non veganism. Funny enough I met a guy who told me all about raw milk kefir and how he made his own.
Then my research led me to Jerry Brunetti, a man who according to the drs should have died years ago, but healed his lymphoma with raw colostrum, raw milk and other healing foods. Check Jerry out here.
Another good friend from Crazy Sexy Life , Dana Herbert was also using raw milk in her fight against jaw cancer. Things were pointing me in the direction of (GASP)using animal products. I was scared to try them, afraid I would have mucous flow out of all orifices or terrible stomach pains.. but after a sip of raw colostrum.. nothing bad happened. To be honest, all the enzymes and enemas et al had made a bit of a mess out of my digestive system. It was not functioning well at all, even a simple green juice could leave me with hours of pain in my gut.
I started making my own kefir, thanks to a friend with grains, added in some raw butter and a few eggs here and there.. and I felt...... really really good. Better than I had in quite some time. What gives?
At the Screaming Cherry Blossoms gig to see Alissa
and better...
Notice my muscles are coming back?
I got stronger..fitter...gained weight...hmmmm..on not too much raw dairy a week, still mostly raw fruit and veg.. lots of fruit...
and I kept gaining weight..5 lbs in six months..
holding my own on the bike...
on the way to a talk on the benefits of raw dairy..notice anything?
next onc visit...just last month.. blood got worse again. and I gained 8 more lbs....argh.....
I quit all my raw dairy, went back to full raw vegan.. and realized that I had been eating all my fruit, dates, lots and lots of sweets, raw but loaded with sugars.. along with my increased raw fat/dairy. Ooops.
back to the drawing board...
Currently, I am using raw kefir, a bit of raw butter and raw cheese.. and (WARNING NOT RAW OR VEGAN) some broiled fish and bison..stay tuned.
Bottom line folks: Read Lierre Keith's Vegetarian Myth before you write me hate mail.
Read Daniel Vitalis's story of his long journey out of Raw veganism
Read Kai Lilla's story of her teeth saved by leaving vegan behind..
Read Raw Model Anthony Anderson's move to raw dairy and beyond!
Read J S and Heidi's journey into vibrancy and health
and for some really amazing storys visit Rhys at Let Them Eat Meat for many ex vegan interviews!
I want to live.
Period.
and I will do whatever it takes to make that happen.
You can judge me.
You can throw animal blood on me.
But unless you can keep me alive.. I don't really answer to anything other than that.
With Love and Compassion,
Deb
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