A few months ago a very good friend of mine, who also happens to be a naturopath, learned that her mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
As is frequently the case with any type of cancer diagnosis, there followed an intense period of fear, tension and anguish as everyone involved tried to sort out exactly what to do next. Typically there would be a tendency to rely wholly, and often desperately, on the advice of doctors and their staff, those who we respect as, not only experts in their field, but also the most caring and capable in terms of the best protocols and treatments available.
We tend to trust whatever they tell us to do next, we assume theirs is the best possible advice to follow and as a consequence the cancer sufferer hands over total responsibility for their survival or recovery to them and them alone.
All of which is what made one of the first things my friend's mother was told to do (or rather was told what 'not' to do) all the more strange.
The resident nutritionist at the hospital involved, while correctly reviewing the many lifestyle and dietary changes that might help her patient in these life-threatening circumstances, went out of her way to warn her
not to take any vitamin C at all, and even went as far as to tell her that it was toxic and could even encourage the growth of the cancer!
Comment: Listen to the following video presentation by Dr. Helen Caldicott: Hiroshima, Fukushima & beyond - she mentions the USA's preparations to upgrade its aging nuclear arsenal to the tune of $1 trillion over the next 30 years. Also read the following article about 'lessons learned from the past' regarding exposure to nuclear radiation: