andrew1957SCIAG Yeah there's a lot of red flags in Andrew's account, obviously it's great that he had a spontaneous remission and eating healthily is a good idea in any case but I don't think anyone should use him as an example.
Anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. If you want to speak to someone about personal nutrition, speak to a dietician.
Candida is a very popular boogeyman with "alternative medicine" types. It seems like Andrew's nutritionist "diagnosed" him with Invasive Candidiasis, which is not something you cure by cutting out sugar! If you don't get antifungal treatment then prognosis is very poor.
Sugar doesn't "feed" cancer any more than any other energy source, your body can break down almost anything you eat into glucose and then to ATP and all cells, cancerous or not, need that for energy. Sugar adds calories but it isn't carcinogenic.
The real kicker is the line about the immune system being at 95% and then 100%. This is just nonsense. With something like blood oxygen levels, sure, you can quantify that as a percentage pretty easily. But the immune system? It's far too complex. On a population level we could say that e.g. taking steroids tends to suppress your B lymphocytes by X%. But to the best of my knowledge, there is no way of measuring that and little clinical use.
Honestly, it sounds very much like someone who knows what the customer wants to hear and tells them it.
Andrew - if this is working for you then of course you will trust yourself over randomers on the internet. I would suggest, however, that you speak to your GP about whether the vaccine is safe for you. I would suggest that your cancer risk from the vaccine is likely to be lower than the cancer risk of walking down the road for a few minutes, breathing in car exhaust and getting UV light on your skin.
You say that anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. Well anyone can call themselves a solicitor but it does not mean anything if they have not been through law school. My nutritionist is well qualified - there are qualifications. And just for clarity I asked to see about the cancer her "after" I had discharged myself from the NHS. I sought her out. She was not trying to sell me anything. And she initially said that her general advice to all her clients was to take the NHS care AND also do the diet stuff which she had found improved the survival rate massively. I was the first and still only client who has ever refused NHS treatment under her care. She had no influence over me.
The difference between a nutritionist and a dietitian is that a dietitian just gives advice on diet whereas a nutritionist will also consider what every individual needs in terms of vitamin boosters etc to boost their gut health and immune system. I am sure dietitians do a good job but it is very one dimensional rather than holistic.
You are 100% wrong about candida. It can be fixed by diet alone. We don't need pharma drugs to solve every problem. I am not saying sugar is carcinogenic but rather that when you have cancer it feeds it. I cannot prove it by my belief is that in my case I cut off the food supply and the cancer just died. There might be no proof of my beliefs - but there are multiple medical trials that have shown how bad sugar is for most of us, so I cannot see that cutting it out/reducing the amount we consume can be bad for any of us.
All drugs/vaccines carry a low risk of cancer. Clearly as I am very prone to cancer it is my opinion that the risk to me will be much greater than the risk to an average person. As it happens I have no GP to talk to. I am registered at practice near where we now live but I have not been to see anyone there since we moved in 2017 as I have never even had a cold. I am just on a list with no GP appointed.
The nutritionist has a machine that measures the electrical currents through the body - much like acupuncture. I did not know such machines existed and I was super skeptical when I first met her many years ago (well before the cancer) but I knew I had issues that came up in an NHS blood test at that time. I did not tell her what those issues were but she was able to find them within 5 minutes. The machine does give immune system readings whether you believe it or not. She has told me she has a number of GPs who are clients - as the NHS has nothing remotely as advanced.
Re your final point I asked to see her. She has never tried to exert any influence over me and if anything tried to persuade me not to discharge myself from NHS care. When I went to see her my intention was just to live as long and as healthily as I could. I suppose I had accepted the death sentence and was in no way certain that I would survive and I think we were both profoundly shocked at how quickly I recovered and the cancer went.
It is a criminal offence to call yourself a solicitor when you are not, likewise a dietician. Contrastingly, a nutritionist is unregulated, and is not a medical professional. It's not correct to say that dieticians only consider diet while nutritionists will also consider vitamin boosters - a dietician in the UK will advise you to take a vitamin D supplement during the winter, for example.
I've encountered quite a few people who have been told that they had pervasive candida infection who actually had no such thing. One person was told they had it based on a stool they passed and photographed. Fortunately they still had the photograph. The stool was clearly not candida, but mucus. Some people have problematic infections in their mouth and upper respiratory tract, or their vagina. If you had it all through your body (which cancer patients sometimes do, particularly if you're on chemo to suppress your immune system) then you'd be in intensive care. It's one of the things that killed a lot of AIDS patients. A simple oral infection is easily detected via visual inspection, but to know it was in your gut, she would need to see into your gut.
Acupuncture is hokum. Sticking needles in people can provide an analgesic effect, but not on the principles that practitioners claim; there is no difference between "proper" acupuncture and "sham" acupuncture. If something is described as working on similar principles to acupuncture, it probably doesn't work! I appreciate that it might be you drawing the comparison rather than it being explicitly described by the nutritionist as being like acupuncture, but in any case, measuring immune functioning via electrical currents is complete nonsense.
When I say "see your GP" I don't mean seeing a single nominated doctor, I meant speaking to any doctor. You don't need to have a nominated individual in order to get an appointment. You could even do a phone appointment.
