Former model almost died trying to cure cancer with juice diet

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1. Probably went to the doctor a dozen times and got told she was crazy or to take painkillers before desperately trying to fix it herself.

2. The consequences of taking “celebrities” seriously …

3. Before we condemn her as stupid and easily led, remember a what happened to the smart, incredibly successful Steve Jobs….

4. The instinct is to go ‘well, that’s idiotic,’ but I can imagine if you have cancer you grab onto *any* hope of a cure, no matter how farfetched. Silly that she didn’t try traditional medicine first, but I can’t judge her too harshly for being desperate.

5. I don’t know which is worse. Being daft enough to think a juice diet will cure your cancer or going to sky to have them promote news articles about your stupidity.

6. What the fuck does the fact she was a former model have to do with anything? Does that somehow make her almost dieing due to her own stupidness any worse? If anything models aren’t exactly k now for their intelligence.

7. There are people for whom raw food diets and defox (the Gerson diet) cured their cancer when chemo couldn’t. Their medical records prove this beyond any doubt. And there are people like her where juicing doesn’t work and chemo did. Her mistake was to not change her approach when it wasn’t working for her.

8. > She said that she was advised to start chemotherapy, but she turned to the internet to find alternative advice and “everything started from there”.   

   > She said she listened to one man with hundreds of thousands of followers on social media who claimed the body could “heal itself” through a radical lifestyle and diet change. 

   Hank Green (author, youtuber, online education guy) did a video on this kind of thing after his own cancer treatment for *Edit:*~~Non-~~ Hodgkin lymphoma. 

   It’s somewhat jarringly called [Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life?](https://youtu.be/mJcjefKUOcc?si=zG3cb40Vg1khZh3V) (presumably to try to get it to the top of the search results for people like her who are looking for natural remedies) and gives a bit of a reality check on the fact that plenty of chemotherapy drugs are based on molecules found in nature (in his case, a Madagascan flower and some soil bacteria).  

   And so the people who were tweeting either to him or about him about how he was making a mistake and “should” be treating his cancer naturally instead were full of shit. Because:  

   > When we say natural cancer treatment, what we mean is something that either we don’t know works, or we know that it doesn’t work, or we know that it does more harm than good. Those are the only things we mean when we say natural cancer treatment.   
   > Because otherwise, a natural cancer treatment would include the three compounds from nature that I put in my body to cure my cancer.  

   > The majority of cancer cases on earth, and an even greater majority of cancer deaths on earth, happen outside high income countries.   

   > Those people don’t die of cancers because they don’t have access to coffee enemas, or cannabis oil, or apricot pits. They die because they don’t have access to chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and screening.

9. My dad had non-hodgkin lymphoma and did exactly this – rejected conventional medicine and instead opted for a high vitamin juice diet he’d seen online. He was dead within a year.

10. Know someone who also tried this approach and unfortunately it didn’t work out for her. Believed a “guru” over doctors who dedicate their adult lives to studying medicine.

11. I know of someone who had terminal cancer and was sucked into these juice diet claims. She went off to a retreat in the US where they basically made her feel like she was not trying hard enough for not curing herself and spent her last months feeling guilty.

    The peddlers of these “cures” are despicable.

12. It’s not that dumb idea, you cannot die of cancer in 2 years if you can die of starvation in 2 months.

13. The fructose in fruit juice would be like pouring gasoline on a fire, cancer thrives on sugar

14. Scary how much traction sh*t like this seems to have just looking in Instagram comments….eddie abbew had a recent post about the vaccine and the comments were majority antivax. Wtaf.

15. Did the cancer kill her? No? So the juice worked?

    😶

    Did the cancer kill her? Yes? So the juice did nothing?

    🤔

16. Whenever I hear stories like this or someone talking about “alternative” medicine I think of the Dara o Briain joke

    “Herbal medicine’s been around for thousands of years!” Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became ‘medicine’. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri.

17. It is easy to laugh at flat earthers, but when anti-science views become common place, unfortunately we she situations like this.

    I’m glad she eventually realised the error of her approach.

18. Doesn’t do well for the stupid model stereotype does it