American Medical system - created for Revenues early 1900's A NO HEAL - NO CURE - Never seek causes system Also Pushed Drugs with side effects RATHER than Enhancing Immune Systems
Drs. & many nurses are BADLY brainwashed. Dangerous to patients - AS ignore Miraculous Immune Systems
CRITICAL to read this !!!
There is "What we know". There is "What we don't know". PROBLEM -There is "What we don't know, that we don't know". Throw in opinions, beliefs, points-of-view, attitudes, positions, desire to be right, egos, greed, self serving, sophisticated Brainwashing/Marketing & related - then you have quite a formula for frustration.
BOOK REVIEW: RECALLED BY LIFE –THE STORY OF MY
RECOVERY FROM CANCER
Review by Yeong Sek Yee & Khadijah Shaari
This book is an
autobiography of Dr Anthony Sattilaro, MD as told to Tom Monte. Dr Sattilaro
graduated from Rutgers University and the Harford Hospital and also a graduate
from the Harvard Business School and School of Public Health. He was an
anesthesiologist for 20 years until his appointment as the President of the
Methodist Hospital in Philadelphia in December 1977.
In June 1978, at the
age of 47, Dr Sattilaro was told by his physicians that he had prostatic cancer
(stage 4) which had metastasized to other parts of his body, including the
skull, shoulder, spine, sternum, and ribs.
Within weeks of the diagnosis, Dr Sattilaro underwent surgery and began
estrogen treatment to combat the spread of the disease. As a last resort, he
even removed his two testicles. It soon became apparent, however, that this
would not halt the malignancy.
His doctors informed
him that he had perhaps “a few” years to live (Later, he was told “less than 18
months”) and that those years would be spent in a torturous slide towards
death. He was already suffering from acute back pain, for which large doses of
painkillers provided only periodic relief. His highly professional colleagues
have left little doubt that he had terminal cancer, and he resigned himself to
a painful future, a regimen of drugs, and only a slim hope that he would live
to see fifty.
Driving back to Philadelphia
after the burial of his father, who had died of lung cancer, Sattilaro was
deeply depressed and uncharacteristically picked up two young hitchhikers. At a
loss for small talk, Sattilaro
confessed that he was living on borrowed time, and to his surprise he was told
that his illness is curable if he would go on a strange vegetarian diet. Though
highly skeptical, he was intrigued by the young stranger’s sincerity, and with
nothing to lose, he followed up the lead.
Dr Sattilaro had been
a dr. for more than 20 years by then, and it was with no small trepidation that
he went looking for answers outside the profession to which he had dedicated
his life. This search put him on an extraordinary journey—one that has led him
not only to a restoration of his health, but also to the roots of his being.
While still continuing his
duties at the hospital, he rearranged his life to take his meals at a commune
where only such foods as brown rice, whole grains, beans, fresh vegetables,
fish and seaweed are served, and where a positive, spiritual approach to life
was pervasive. In just a few weeks, the back pain that had plagued him for
years subsided, and in a matter of several months the course of his cancer had
been reversed and his body was actually on the mend.
On August 6 1981,
Dr Sattilaro underwent another bone scan at the Methodist Hospital, the sixth
test he had undergone in the past 3 years. That bone scan revealed absolutely
no sign of cancer in his body. The news of his X-rays hit the macrobiotic
and medical community in Philadelphia as if Dr Sattilaro had been raised from
the dead. He had not resumed the estrogen therapy, even for a short period,
since he quit the hormones in June 1979. However, drs. in the Methodist
Hospital insisted that Dr Sattilaro’s improved health was due to his previous
surgeries and the estrogen therapy and had nothing to do with the macrobiotic
diet.
Dr. Sattilaro admitted
that he could find no medically acceptable explanation for his cure; he knew
only that it had happened. He continued to support established methods and
procedures of modern technological medicine, but his experience suggested that
there are complementary approaches to health, and especially to cancer, that
may also be beneficial. He began and ultimately found not only a cure but a
sense of wholeness and spiritual fulfillment that he shared with the reader in
this account of his remarkable experience. Dr. Sattilaro celebrated his 50th
birthday in 1981.
The diet Dr Sattilaro
followed is called “macrobiotics” which is drawn from the best elements of a
traditional Asian diet, including generous amounts of rice and vegetables.
(There are a lot of books/literature written on macrobiotics and cancer—just
Google for more information). As he recovered, he
became perhaps the most famous advocate for the use of diet against cancer and
this raised the question as to whether diet can turn the tide on cancer, and
the fact that there was simply not enough information yet available to speak with
assurance. There were no double-blind studies, no control patients, or anything
else that would suggest that what happened to Dr. Sattilaro will happen for
anyone else, although there is a large cadre of people who report similar
results.
Dr Sattilaro’s story
of his prostate cancer being healed by a change in diet created a big storm.
This led to some serious debates. Dr Neal Barnard, MD and nutrition researcher
became interested in Sattilaro’s story. So he went in search
of him in 1986. Dr Sattilaro had resigned his job as head of Methodist Hospital
and had moved to Florida. He was not only alive, but youthful and vigorous. He
had adhered to the macrobiotic diet and adopted a specific exercise program. He
went swimming every day. His cancer seemed to be gone, and he kept X-ray films
in a file for when he needed to remind himself of his remission. Sattilaro had
been deluged with letters from other cancer patients, but always answered that
he did not know if what had happened to him could also happen for them.
Dr Sattilaro’s greatest food
misadventure
Eventually, he began
to deviate from the diet, adding fish and chicken, as if to test whether he was
cured or simply in remission. If it was a test, he failed. In July 1989, Dr Barnard called Dr. Sattilaro
and found him to be gravely ill. His cancer had recurred—”viciously,” he said.
He was in good spirits, but harbored no illusions about the grim situation he
was in. He knew that the end was very near. He had resumed the use of
painkillers, which at times made him quite groggy. Dr Sattilaro died shortly after. However, he survived 11 years despite being told he had only 18
painful months to live. If he had not been too adventurous with his food after
his 10th year, would he have survived longer? We will
never know.
Below are some quotes
by Dr Sattilaro on the subject of nutrition and cancer:
a) Dr Sattilaro’s normal diet (in his own words):
§ The
food that I had lived on for the previous 47 years was rich and usually heavily
seasoned.
§ I
lived the perfect formula for cancer—a high fat diet, plenty of refined flour
products, an insatiable sweet tooth and a generally sedentary lifestyle.
b) Dr Sattilario’s personal reaction to the
macrobiotic diet:
§ When the hitch hikers told him that cancer is the natural result of
a bad diet, Dr Sattilaro wondered how a 25 year old knows about cancer. He then
dismissed the hitchhiker’s statement as foolishness of youth.
§ After 25 years of practicing medicine, he had heard all kinds of
quack claims and treated them with the same kind of dignified disinterest.
§ When
he went to the Macrobiotic center, he was told that he has to abstain from…all
meat, dairy products, refined grains, including white bread and flour products,
all sugar, all oils, nuts, fruits and carbonated drinks and foods containing
synthetic chemicals and preservatives….which was Dr Sattilario’s standard fare
to the letter.
§ He
left the Macrobiotic centre feeling a deep sense of confusion and despair. He
felt as if he had just walked out of another world.
§ Going
there and being given an examination by a thirty-year-old kid who hadn’t been
to medical school was surely reaching the bottom of the barrel.
Despite his deep
skepticism, Dr Sattilaro nevertheless opted to give the macrobiotic food system
a try. He had nothing to lose as his life was declared terminal and he was
living on borrowed time.
Following are some initial contemptuous comments:
§ Each
day, Dr Sattilaro carried to work the little Japanese lunch box containing
brown rice and vegetables. People at the hospital looked at him with a
combination of curiosity and pity.
§ There
was also a strange disappointment in their eyes, as if he had gone over to the other side already.
§ “He’s turned himself over to the quacks” many
of them must have thought. He said he would have thought the same thing, had a
colleague of his resorted to macrobiotics in his dying days.
How Dr Sattilaro reacted to Macrobiotics.
§ About
2 weeks after he started macrobiotics, he developed symptoms of a cold or flu
with heavy mucus discharge and a mild fever. He was told that this healing
reaction is “sickness of adjustment” which is the body’s way of getting rid of
excess on a periodic basis….this bewildered him further and heightened his
skepticism.
§ His
perception changed when on September 26 1978, he discovered that his back pain
was gone. He had suffered 2 years of enormous back pain that only heavy doses
of narcotics could put down.
§ Within
a few weeks after he began the macrobiotic diet, his digestive problems
disappeared. On top of that he had great reserves of energy and his mind seemed
clearer than usual.
Eventually, as he recovered progressively, Dr Sattilaro admitted
that….”there is no doubt in my mind
that the diet was instrumental in my own recovery…and in some way triggered my
immune system, which enabled my body to fight off the disease….there is also no
doubt in my mind that had I relied solely on just the orchiectomy and the
estrogens, I would have been dead long ago”
FURTHER REFERENCES ON
MACROBIOTICS
1) THE MACROBIOTIC DIET IN CANCER.
2) MACROBIOTIC DIET by Michio and
Aveline Kushi (a general introduction to macrobiotics)
3) THE MACROBIOTIC PATH TO TOTAL HEALTH by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack (A complete guide to naturally
preventing and relieving chronic conditions and disorders).
4) THE CANCER PREVENTION DIET by Michio Kushi
and Alex Jack (The macrobiotic approach to prevention and relieving cancer)
5) COOKING THE WHOLE FOODS WAY by Christina
Pirello (Everyday guide to healthy, delicious eating featuring 500 vegan
dishes).
SOME SELECTED YOUTUBE VIDEOS ON
MACROBIOTICS
1) What is the
Macrobiotic Diet?
2) Typical
Foods on the Macrobiotic Diet
A SPECIAL NOTE ON DR NEAL
BARNARD, MD
Dr Barnard is a nutrition
researcher and founder of The Cancer
Project and The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) which promotes preventive medicine, especially good nutrition,
and addresses controversies in modern medicine, including ethical issues in
research.
Dr Barnard is an adjunct
Associate Professor of Medicine at George Washington University and is the
author of the best seller “THE CANCER
SURVIVOR’S GUIDE”featuring foods to fight back cancer—with special emphasis on Prostate and Breast Cancers.
KEEP ON MIND that Drs. used to PROMOTE smoking Now that they can't they PROMOTE Drugs WITH serious- Dangerous side effects !
are being pushed out and more and more natural foods are moving in. 
of Harmon's Bob Harmon. 
