I make no secret of the fact that I believe that holistic therapies can play a part in healing cancer alongside conventional therapies. I certainly do not feel inclined to abandon conventional therapy in spite of the sometimes awful side effects. The Everolimus and Lenvatinib that I am taking sometimes leaves me feeling a bit limp and washed-out, but the current dosage is not too bad most of the time. I just hope it is doing some good.
The one thing that most holistic practitioners recommend is carrot juice. Juicing is a bit of a bother, but at least you control the quality of what goes in. Two of our closest stores stock organic carrots (I try to buy organic where feasible and affordable). Aldi sell them in 0.75kg bags and M&S in 1kg bags. I usually juice a bag at a time and add a celery stick also some extra-virgin olive oil to the juice. The reason for the oil is that some supplements I take are fat soluble and I take them with the juice. One lot of juice usually lasts a day and a half to two days. I bought a relatively inexpensive Housnat juicer from Amazon and it has given sterling service. I didn’t want to spend too much because I didn’t know whether I would be able to persist with this. However, I find myself happily doing this every other day and I do really like the juice. It tastes delicious to my mind.
This is the juicer I bought some months ago and feel that it has paid for itself. It is quite easy to use – I cut the carrots into strips and feed them down the tube from which they get mashed and squeezed with the juice pouring down into the jug and the squeezed out bits being deposited into a container. I have heard of people putting some of these squeezed out bits on their porridge (which is also considered to be quite a healthy breakfast – I get organic oats from Aldi and make it with water because I avoid dairy and sweeten with a small amount of manuka honey).
It may seem a waste just using the juice from carrots, but that is where a lot of the goodness lies. There is no way that I could eat the required amount of raw carrots to get the same benefit.
The illustration above shows fruit and vegetables being juiced, but I prefer to make vegetable smoothies in a blender. I typically blend a stick or two of celery and a few inches of cucumber, both beneficial for cancer, with a bit of almond milk and I sometimes add an apple because I think it makes the end result a bit tastier,