MEDIA ALERT
A recent edition of the Medical Journal of Australia has published a 30 year follow up on Dr Ian Gawler’s remarkable recovery from a virulent bone cancer, osteogenic sarcoma.
Using a combination of self-help measures, including diet and meditation, Ian was able to turn around a prognosis of 2-3 weeks survival into 30 years of being cancer free.
The MJA report said “such a lifestyle approach, incorporating meditation and a vegan diet, has recently been shown to cause significant modulation of gene expression and biological processes associated with tumour growth. “
Dr Gawler was a young veterinary surgeon and decathlon athlete when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma.
The amputation of his leg failed to arrest the spread of the disease and doctors gave him a matter of weeks to live.
This 30 year follow up was written by Prof George Jelinek, MBSS, MD, DipDHM, FACEM, Professor of Emergency Medicine at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and the University of Western Australia and Dr Ruth Gawler, MB BS, MGPPsych, FACPsyMed, General Practitioner and Therapist.
“It is interesting to consider the possible factors involved in this man’s remarkable recovery,” the report said.
“Spontaneous remission is a possibility, although exceedingly unlikely at such an advanced stage of disease, and its coincident timing with a wide range of self-help measures adopted by the patient makes this explanation even more improbable. Certainly, the patient had widespread disease from which recovery, even today, would be very unlikely.
“…The patient attributed the remarkable recovery to intensive meditation, and it is true that the patient meditated from 3 to 5 hours daily after developing secondaries. He still regularly meditates and teaches others with cancer to do so. His fastidious adoption of the Gerson diet for 3 months, followed by adherence to a plant-based wholefood vegan diet may also have played some part.”
Filed under: Press releases 2009
