@corsaire – great idea about the microwave! Problem is, if it’s there, it’s really tempting to use it. I had so much trouble with that, I decided 3 years ago, when the last one burnt out, to just not get another one – and not let anyone give me one either. So it gets heated on the gas stove or it’s cold. Period. Now I need a rocket mass heater or wood stove….
December 12: Yesterday and today were steep learning curves. We finally got an appointment for a second opinion on daughter’s cancer for Monday. In the meantime, with her GP monitoring her, we’re inducing ketosis to try and starve those nasty cancer cells. It wasn’t happening with diet alone, so she started fasting on Monday night. Tuesday was great – after only about 12 hours she was in ketosis, along with a healthy pH in the saliva and urine. That’s actually really fast – probably because she had little glucose reserves in the liver to begin with (not a sugar eater). There was a nasty headache to deal with, but it passed. This afternoon, however, the ketosis got too strong and she started getting more acid – so she’s eating again. We’ll just keep working on the ketogenic diet and maybe have her fast just one day a week from here on out.
So our prepping today was gathering notes and experience. It’s going in the journal under “how to care for cancer when no doctor will help you unless you let him butcher you,” or maybe “how to treat cancer when there’s no medicine available.” Believe me, this is not way out there risky stuff that we’re doing. We have been collecting the studies. Daughter is a trained researcher and her GP has had women do this very same thing and overcome cancer because they didn’t want disfiguring surgery, or wanted to preserve healthy function. Conventional oncologists are actually starting to use fasting in conventional cancer therapy – if you fast before you get chemo, it makes the cancer cells more vulnerable and the healthy cells do a chemical thing that protects them from the chemo.
We’re being very careful, and she is being constantly monitored. It’s hard, though. You are making yourself feel awful (from the fasting) instead of the doctor making you feel awful (chemo). We may have to do both, though. We’ll see.