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u/Fexofanatic 12h ago
sure you beat cancer naturally: through natural human ingenuity and curiosity aand their love child, applied natural sciences
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u/bopeepsheep 12h ago
I have religious family members, who included me in their prayers. And those prayers also included my surgeons, who were "provided by God" if you believe, and the NHS if you don't.
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u/VdubKid_94 12h ago
That’s the same as saying “god saved me” in a car accident. Not hundreds of engineers, decades of crash testing, and the government agencies that ensure they’re safe to a certain standard.
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u/bopeepsheep 12h ago
It's the "I sent you a helicopter, a boat, and a kayak, what more do you need?" style of God, though. If you want to think God's helping (not for me) then at least thinking God sent doctors is acknowledging human abilities. Whatever made them happy was OK with me.
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u/BagStank 12h ago
You know why they call it alternative medicine? Cause if it worked, it would be called medicine.
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u/iggy14750 12h ago
I beat cancer the old-fashioned way: surgery and chemo. Testing clean since 2018.
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u/Goodbye11035Karma 12h ago
Acquaintance when I told them I had cancer for the second time: You should look into essential oils and cleaning up your diet before you agree to chemo.
Me: No thanks. I'd like to live.
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u/thetburg 12h ago
They had cancer and did not treat it.
Naturally, they died. The cancer also died.
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u/Major_R_Soul 12h ago
Our body does have an immune response that fights cancerous cells naturally, but by the time you get told you "have cancer" the body has already failed to contain the problem. So the only people beating cancer naturally are those who never technically had it to begin with.
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u/Sensitive-Damage-628 12h ago
My best friend tried to beat it naturally. She is dead three years now. Damn, I wish I could’ve changed her mind.
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u/RTwhyNot 12h ago
Perfect. He is going to kill people
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u/VdubKid_94 12h ago
That was my reply, when they said “how is this funny” I said “I find it funny you think it’s ok to share a post, that could potentially influence someone into drinking bullshit tea. Instead of seeking life saving medical treatment…..that’s a joke”.
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u/chrstnasu 11h ago
I definitely am not taking this route. I had the tumor removed and lymph nodes checked. I will be radiation, possibly chemotherapy (slight chance I may need this), and taking hormone blockers. I’m only stage 1 and I don’t want it to progress.
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u/SafeOdd1736 12h ago
My mom ignored signs and symptoms because she was scared and hated going to the doctors. Finally her puking got so bad and she could barely crap so I took her to the hospital Sunday afternoon during the height of Covid. Well they had to call in their best surgeon because my mom was about to die. She had a hysterectomy, they removed parts of her colon, rectum and who knows what else. Was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. She fought like hell and tried everything they asked of her. But she had a coke can sized tumor on her liver and it eventually Spread to her brain. She died less than 2 years later. Very inspiring story…. Hope it helps people get checked earlier even if they are potentially nervous about the results.
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u/throwaway387190 9h ago
Nah, I beat cancer naturally
Because we are a tool using species. We evolved to make and use tools
My chemotherapy was a tool we used to fight cancer. Thus, it was natural for me/my doctors to use tools to solve my problem
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u/technanonymous 11h ago
A small percentage of cancers go into spontaneous remission. Rolling the dice yourself is one thing. Encouraging others to follow your example is criminal.
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u/Dpek1234 5h ago
Its like surviveing a fireing squad
People have survived, doesnt mean its not the least botched method of execution
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u/Superb_Ant_3741 9h ago
I’m a cancer patient who has had multiple cancers, including a cancer almost identical to the cancer that took Steve Jobs’ life. I’ve followed the guidance of my clinicians, combined with acupuncture and herbalism. But I’ve never been so arrogant that I believed I could survive any of my cancers without any medical intervention or care.
I take no pleasure in the reality that Steve Jobs suffered and passed away. He could have been cured with surgery alone if he had just listened to his oncologists. But he stubbornly chose to wait an entire year, convinced that he knew more than his expert clinicians, and then the metastasis spread so far that nothing could save him: not surgery or the treatment he finally agreed to.
I think the point here is that nothing, not his wealth or his access to the most expert care in the country, could save him from his ego. And people who promote non - medical cures to vulnerable cancer patients are parasites.
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u/eliota1 8h ago
Steve Jobs would still be alive today if he hadn't disregarded his Doctor's instructions to get Chemo for a highly treatable form of Pancreatic cancer, Instead he drank wheat grass juice for 9 months, and by the time he realized it wasn't working, it was too late for the Chemo to work.
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u/-XanderCrews- 12h ago
This whole season seems to be about people that have no idea of self. With the exception of Victoria, who is the only rich character in any of the seasons that is completely self aware about what she is.
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u/SugarLuger 11h ago
Did anyone try asking Steve Jobs?
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u/worldbound0514 11h ago edited 2h ago
That's my go-to story for this kind of foolishness. Steve Jobs had more money than he could spend in a lifetime, and even he couldn't buy a cure for cancer at the end. His juicing regimen did nothing for his pancreatic cancer. He could have seen any doctor in the world same day, and he chose to go with some holistic malarkey to his own detriment.
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u/Sockysocks2 7h ago
Funny thing is, your body does fight cancer naturally. It just does a really crappy job. It destroys most of the original cells, but ignores some which it believes are regulr cells. Said cells then start multiplying again and your body does absolutely nothing to stop it.
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u/Dpek1234 5h ago
It actualy does a pretty good job, which is the reason most people dont have several cancers by age 5, its just that it never becomes a problem so we never know about it
If cancer is anywhere near detectable by normal methods, the body has failed
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u/rachelface927 24m ago
I guess the person posing this question didn’t catch Apple Cider Vinegar on Netflix, or more importantly The Search for Instagram’s Worst Con Artist, the doc the series is based on, also on Netflix. Very compelling arguments against treating very serious diseases with organic fruits and coffee enemas.
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u/der_horst23 13h ago edited 11h ago
you shouldn't burn someone without any health care or who doesn't believe in modern medicine. Maybe she hasn't enough family members who could help her afterwards with deep thoughts and inspiring prayers /s just to be sure
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u/VdubKid_94 13h ago
I hope this is /s???
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u/safadimiras 12h ago
It obviously is….
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u/VdubKid_94 12h ago
I’ve made obvious comments in Reddit before without /s and was downvoted to oblivion so….you never know
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u/DmAc724 13h ago
Kinda telling when someone like Val Kilmer who was fairly faithful to his Christian Scientist upbringing/teachings/beliefs went against those and got the help medical science could provide.
If beating cancer “naturally” were a possibility the medical treatments that have been developed over decades wouldn’t have been.