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A woman in the UK who was given weeks to live has claimed that drinking fresh fruit juice is helping her beat cancer.
Natasha Grindley, 37, was told she only had weeks to live in July 2014 after doctors found she had stomach cancer.
“I was utterly devastated when doctors told me I had two weeks to live,” Ms Grindley told the Daily Mail.
“It all happened quite quickly and they put a camera down and I could see that it was my stomach and had spread to my lymph nodes, my neck and all of my abdomen really.
“It was a very, very dark time for a while and me and my husband started reading constantly to find alternative therapies.
“They didn’t know that it was stomach cancer at the time and I don’t think that they could have told me because I would have been too heartbroken to hear it.”
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Ms Grindley immediately started chemotherapy, but says she also looked into alternative therapies and switched from a fatty and sugary diet to something more nutritious.
Her cancer reduced in size within weeks, and Ms Grindley puts this down to her healthy eating.
“When I started changing my diet, I looked better than I had done for years, even though I was obviously very ill,” she said.
“I was going through, and still am, undergoing chemotherapy treatment every three weeks but people were saying to me ‘you don’t look ill’ and I put it down to the changes I made in my diet.
“Reading about alternative therapies and finding new nutritious food became my obsession.
“And, when I started cutting out the likes of meats and alcohol, things started picking up about six months later.
“I used the foods to power up my immune system and that helps me because my blood is then ready for chemo.
“I noticed that every time I made a change to my diet, I saw a positive difference in how I felt.”
Ms Grindley now runs a Facebook page called Heal for Real dedicated to helping people fight cancer.
She explained the page’s philosophy in a post published in January.
“Our belief is that cancer is not a disease. It is a symptom,” the post reads.
“It’s the result of your body not having the right tools or immune strength to remove an overload of harmful toxins from your system. Give it the right tools and it can do the job.”
But experts have warned against relying on lifestyle factors to cure cancer.
“There’s no evidence that diet alone will help without the chemotherapy,” oncologist Professor Karol Sikora told the Daily Mail.
“With the chemotherapy, a healthy diet and exercise is beneficial.
“But it’s not a cure, you need conventional treatment too.
“Different people react to cancer in different ways and one has to respect that.
“Oxygen therapy and homeopathy, these alternative therapies offer false hope.
“There’s no evidence they work. A lot of people believe they work and that is the problem.
“Alternative therapists will have great stories of people who have benefitted from their therapy, but they won’t give you the real statistics, because the facts show it doesn’t work.
“I would recommend having conventional treatment, and then by all means, have alternative therapies as well if you really like, but don’t replace the former with the latter.”
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