'Living Proof'
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:04 pm
Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny by Michael Gearin Tosh (2002 Scribner): His Foreword says it all:
’The diagnosis is cancer (of the bone marrow: myeloma). The hospital tells me to start chemo at once. Without it I will die in months; with it I may live for 2 or 3 years. I ask for a second opinion: the advice is the same-start at once. Then a world authority on cancer says that if I touch chemo ‘’You’re a goner’. Which advice should I take/?... The opposite of the phrase Living proof is I suggest ‘dead wrong’. Or if you will, wrong & dead’….
Well he lived for 20 years and died of something unrelated to his cancer.
He took the Gerson route which is hugely demanding and expensive (and I believe has now been modified)-he had the best advice and the book is fascinating medically. Again I read this early on because someone I know knew him & recalls him getting his students to scrub vegetables for him (He was an Oxford professor.): what I liked most was his honesty about the down times when he just felt like giving up, not doing the visualisations, the coffee enemas, the umpteen juices a day… because there’ll be loads of down days but fewer hopefully as you go along. M G-T proved people weren’t crazy to do different things from those recommended by orthodox medics who either outright frown on anything else or scarcely tolerate it.
’The diagnosis is cancer (of the bone marrow: myeloma). The hospital tells me to start chemo at once. Without it I will die in months; with it I may live for 2 or 3 years. I ask for a second opinion: the advice is the same-start at once. Then a world authority on cancer says that if I touch chemo ‘’You’re a goner’. Which advice should I take/?... The opposite of the phrase Living proof is I suggest ‘dead wrong’. Or if you will, wrong & dead’….
Well he lived for 20 years and died of something unrelated to his cancer.
He took the Gerson route which is hugely demanding and expensive (and I believe has now been modified)-he had the best advice and the book is fascinating medically. Again I read this early on because someone I know knew him & recalls him getting his students to scrub vegetables for him (He was an Oxford professor.): what I liked most was his honesty about the down times when he just felt like giving up, not doing the visualisations, the coffee enemas, the umpteen juices a day… because there’ll be loads of down days but fewer hopefully as you go along. M G-T proved people weren’t crazy to do different things from those recommended by orthodox medics who either outright frown on anything else or scarcely tolerate it.