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“About Me” is the appropriate title for this page. Geoffrey Hadley, 72 years young, alive and kicking!
In October 2017, the doctors diagnosed me with colon cancer. After the diagnosis, the doctors called me in to meet with the oncologist to discuss my treatment plan and advised scheduling another appointment with me and my partner.
To keep this short, I will get right to it and explain why she, my partner, should be present at the final appointment before starting the treatment.
The treatment was not without risk, and the doctors stated that only 1% of patients would actually experience complications. Yes, the famous 1%! I informed them that my mother had also experienced complications because she died on the operating table. She was 59 years old.
My mother had the same cancer and underwent the same procedure that they were offering me. It was not the cancer that took her life, though; it was the treatment. She bled to death on the operating table due to a severed artery, and the team was unable to stop the bleeding.
They explained to me that I would undergo surgery to remove part of my colon and would need months of chemo and radiation therapy.
I asked one question: would the treatment be curative or palliative? The doctor informed me that my five-year life expectancy had a 30 per cent chance of success. I knew right away that I was going to decline the treatment. To be honest, I was prepared for all the treatment options they could offer me because I had studied naturopathy at the Paracelsus School in Germany and conducted my own research on alternatives to what I prefer to call “the cut, burn, and poison” routine.
I walked away from the treatment and decided to do my own thing. I understood that maintaining a healthy gut was crucial for my survival. I changed my lifestyle and started to “eat to beat the disease”.
I flooded my system with gut-friendly foods and polyphenols, probiotics, and prebiotics. I entered the world of anti-angiogenesis to starve the cancer and eventually kill it.
Two years later, I received written confirmation from the oncologist that I was cancer-free!
Not many people know about anti-angiogenesis, so here I will break it down to try and explain why it was so important to me on my healing journey:
Anti-Angiogenesis: Building New Walls, Not Blood Vessels
Imagine you’re a city planner, but instead of roads and buildings, you’re constructing intricate networks of blood vessels. That’s what angiogenesis does in our bodies—it orchestrates the formation of new blood vessels. While this process is crucial for healthy development, it can also go awry in diseases such as cancer. That’s where anti-angiogenesis steps in—a strategic blockade against unwanted blood vessel growth.
Think of it like building anti-walls, not arteries. By targeting specific molecules and pathways involved in angiogenesis, anti-angiogenesis therapy aims to:
- Starve the bad guys: By hindering new blood vessel formation, anti-angiogenesis can cut off the supply line to tumours, hindering their growth and spread.
- Strengthen defences: Abnormal blood vessel growth can contribute to conditions like age-related macular degeneration and arthritis. Anti-angiogenesis can stabilise existing vessels and prevent further damage.
- Heal smarter: While wound healing needs new blood vessels, excessive growth can lead to scarring. Using anti-angiogenesis techniques can control blood vessel formation and promote healthier healing.
This field of medicine holds immense potential, offering targeted therapies for:
- Cancer: Anti-angiogenesis drugs are often part of cancer treatment regimens, working alongside surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.
- Eye diseases: In conditions like macular degeneration, anti-angiogenesis injections can help preserve vision.
- Anti-angiogenesis treatments effectively manage psoriasis and other skin conditions.
Of course, like any medical intervention, anti-angiogenesis comes with its own considerations. Careful monitoring and personalised care are crucial to ensuring their safe and effective use.
So, that concludes our discussion! Anti-angiogenesis is like putting the brakes on blood vessel growth, offering a promising approach to combating various diseases. As research progresses, this field has the potential to revolutionise the blueprint for healthy lives.
If you want more information about angiogenesis, you definitely should take a look at the book 👉 “Eat To Beat Disease“
I could write a book about my battle with cancer and exactly how I changed my lifestyle for the better, but that is for another time.
Two years after my diagnosis, I was cancer-free. The hospital has documented my cancer-free status, and the oncologist removed me from the five-year watch-and-wait list in 2022.
We are what we eat and what we absorb!
To finish off, I would like to say one thing. Your thoughts are living things, and this is because of the so-called “gut-brain axis.”. Your gut has a direct connection to your brain, and if you have your head full of negative thoughts, it will have a detrimental effect on your health.
I do believe that my dear mother, bless her soul, did not have a chance of survival 30 years ago. In the past, learning someone had cancer was considered a fatal diagnosis. And unfortunately, doctors today still have very little knowledge about nutrition and the negative effects gut-unfriendly foods have on our health and wellbeing.
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