Lorraine Day Method of Healing Breast Cancer

after my diagnosis, and in my desperation I purchased Lorraine Day's DVD set. I've always been alternatively minded, and holistically health conscious, but she is really not realistic and she is opinionated to the point that it is a little frightening. She said that if you live with someone before your married, that could give you cancer, and if you aren't positive enough in your thinking, that will give you cancer. Praying will take your cancer away. that turned me off, implying that people don't survive cancer because they are not strong enough or positive enough, or don't believe in god enough. She said she thought mushrooms were of the devil because they lived in dark places, so although she went for a well balanced vegan diet, she had these weird predjudices about food. Very superstitious and overly religious in my opinion. I am glad she healed from her cancer, but I'm weary of her. Many don't believe that the growth on her chest was actually cancerous. It wasn't biopsied. Don't want to throw your post. others might have had good experiences. this was just mine. I felt it was responsible to warn.

I saw a DVD of Lorraine Day. How do people listen to her? She came across as the worst kind evangelist. Then there is the lingering deal breaker that she treated herself without ever having a biopsy. Breasts can have all sorts of abcesses that are not breast cancer.

There are so many other therapies and clinicians out there that are credible--I don't get the attraction to Lorraine Day.

My dad got the tapes back in 2004. I do think there is value in the diet. Dad makes carrot juice for me every day. I don't remember a lot about it but I think she says don't eat anything from a box or can. I try to follow that and never use the microwave anymore. She also says to get sun every day which also makes sense. I would just ignore the parts you don't agree with. I certainly don't disagree with religion but I can follow the other things and sort of blow that off. A lot of people pray for me and I believe that helps too, but that's just me. I recently went to her website and there's a picture of her there. I must say she looks fantastic and I don't think she even had any makeup on.

Well I'll be darned, SoCal, if I'd only known that I needed to pray more and be more positive, and I wouldn't have gotten cancer!  Thank you so much for illuminating this fact for me!  It's a shame that I wasn't as natural as I should have been, and too stressed out, so that God gave me cancer, but I will submit now.

The esteemed Ms. Day drinks the nutritional potions every hour, right?  While I'm submitting to God's great plan as you say is necessary to avoid cancer, should I stay up all night to drink these miraculous potions as well? Just want to make sure I'm doing everything that God wants me to do.

Blessings SoCal!

Snarky or not, I agree with Digger.  Praying will not cure cancer, nor keep it from appearing. Nor will "eliminating all the stress from your life."

 Those of us with cancer get very tired of hearing people without cancer telling us that it's our fault because we didn't follow God's plan.  I'm sure there are some good diet practices in her method, but it's very hard to take someone seriously who basically wants us to believe in the supernatural in order to "cure" our disease. 

Athena,

I'm sorry you feel that way.  Perhaps another "alternative" would be to put me on your ignore list...

I'm aghast as to how anyone can take socal's post seriously enough to take offence....you are giving him too much importance.

Interestingly, the NIH does list prayer as alternative therapy, though. This is the alternative forum. So strictly speaking, SoCal is speaking within the tenets of alternative medicine.

Me, I'm an atheist and a believer in science. I happen to think that is all bumkum. On the other hand, I don't have the answer either. When we are dealing with a disease that has no cure and whose treatments can themselves kill or irreversibly maim, you can't really blame some alties for, shall we say, stretching the limits of common sense.

I could understand this hue and cry if cancer were curable. Polio has a vaccine. Infections can be cured by antibiotics. A brken leg can be mended. We've seen this for decades. there are specific things medicine can do and the results are there.

But breast cancer? Surgery may cure it in some cases. Other than thatm, we are mired in uncertainty. And yet so many of us cling to a narrow way of viewing this as though there were no questions unanswered about cancer. I have NEVER been confronted by such orthodoxy and certainty over such an uncertain illness.

Boggles the mind every single time.

I suppose it shows how little we BC patients have in common.

And yet another reason why one of the baby boomer attitudes I most love to hate is the one that says "unless you have walked in my shoes you can't know how I feel" (paraphrased).

Actually, I have NO IDEA what it is like to be diagnosed with stage II breast cancer and NO idea what it is like to undergo treatment. I don't.

I only know what it's like for me. I can't even begin to identify with many others who have those supercifial characteristics in common.

Just a roundabout way of saying that this is as diverse a group as any other and that we should respect that.

Digger, I read it as a belief system. It's prayer after all. So I read that David believes this to be true about cancer.

But I don't believe what he does so therefore I can't take him seriously enough to be offended.

It would be another thing --and I would be offended-- if he had said: "Athena, I know for a fact that you gave yourself cancer because you didn't pray."

Scratch that. I think I'd burst out laughing!

"I only know what it's like for me".  Amen Athena! ( And I say that as a fellow atheist.)

From the other's comments, it sounds like Ms. Day is a bit "out there". Although I think there's nothing wrong with advocating healthier living through diet and exercise.... it's when I start hearing you HAVE to take this (vitamin, shake, magnet, etc) and HAVE to avoid this (food, electronic, thought, etc) is when it sounds more "alarmist" to me, and less helpful/believable.  

Regarding prayer.  After I had my surgery/oncotype test, and found out no lymph nodes were involved and I didn't need chemo -  a very religious woman (my sister's mother in law) tells me that I had a good outcome because she put me in her "prayer group" that "goes all the way up to the Pope".  Uh...okay, fine, that's nice.  But then she said, "And it's great because your "Pope Prayer" lasts for 4 years".  Huh?  There is a timetable for prayers? Do I need to look over my shoulder after year 3?  Or can I resubscribe?  Just the weirdest thing I'd ever heard.