Dr. Anthony Sattilaro wrote his biography, RECALLED BY LIFE about the prostate cancer diagnosis that changed his life by forcing him to consider diet and nutrition in the form of a macrobiotic dietary regimen. His own colleagues scoffed at his ignorance that nutrition could be of any relative importance in cancer prevention or treatment.
Yet, the list goes on of medical doctors and researchers who have stories to tell: Dr. Otto Warburg, two time Nobel Prize winner has researched that lack of oxygen to the cells plays a significant role in cancer growth; Dr. Johanna Budwig has found decreased albumen in the blood of cancer patients; Dr. John Lee shows the relationship between estrogen dominance and progesterone deficiency in breast cancer. These are all giants in the field but endure tough criticism snapping at their heels.
When my late husband was waiting for a heart transplant, the physicians at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, a top hear t transplant institution, could not accept the research I had done on cyclosporine, an immune suppressor commonly used in organ transplants that is 100 percent guaranteed to cause cancer.
Thinking outside the box is always a challenging scenario especially among long established institutions where funding from drug companies is politically correct and rocking the boat has dire job related consequences.
