Nursery teacher beats cancer with fresh juices
Natasha Grindley was told that she had just two weeks to live, but now she claims drinking fresh juices has helped her to fight cancer.
The 37-year old Liverpool resident was diagnosed with stomach cancer when she was given the devastating news she would not live out the month, in July 2014.
She began a course of chemotherapy at Clatterbridge Private Clinic in the Wirral, Merseyside, immediately.
Alongside this treatment, the nursery teacher decided to find alternative therapies and gave up eating fatty and sugary foods for a nutritious diet.
Within weeks her cancer had reduced in size, a change she credits to her lifestyle changes.
However, experts warn there is no evidence a healthy diet, exercise and alternative therapies will cure cancer alone- chemotherapy is needed too.
Mrs Grindley said: 'It all happened quite quickly and they put a camera down and I could see that it was my stomach and had spread to my lymph nodes, my neck and all of my abdomen really.
'It was a very, very dark time for a while and I and my husband started reading constantly to find alternative therapies.
'They didn't know that it was stomach cancer at the time and I don't think that they could have told me because I would have been too heartbroken to hear it.'
The lifestyle change was triggered by a friendship with author Deliciously Ella, whom Mrs Grindley still turns to for nutritional advice.
Since then, Mrs Grindley, married to bricklayer Ian, 33, and mother to Gabriella, six, and Liam, five, has launched her own Facebook page, Heal for Real, that has racked up almost 5,000 likes.
The page reportedly features her own health tips and recipes which she hopes to collate into a book, as well as motivational quotes and pictures.
Her dedication has also made her complete a diploma in nutrition as she continues to defy doctors' predictions more than 18 months on from the initial heartbreaking news.
She said: 'When I started changing my diet, I looked better than I had done for years, even though I was obviously very ill.
'I was going through, and still am, undergoing chemotherapy treatment every three weeks but people were saying to me "you don't look ill" and I put it down to the changes I made in my diet.
'Reading about alternative therapies and finding new nutritious food became my obsession.
'And, when I started cutting out the likes of meats and alcohol, things started picking up about six months later.
She continued: 'I used the foods to power up my immune system and that helps me because my blood is then ready for chemo.
'I noticed that every time I made a change to my diet, I saw a positive difference in how I felt.'
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