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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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March 15, 1999: Cancer Recovery - Dr. Lorraine Day

Mar 15, 1999
3h 22m
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Art Bell welcomes Dr. Lorraine Day, a former orthopedic trauma surgeon who spent 15 years at the University of California San Francisco Medical School and served as chief of orthopedic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Day describes her confrontation with the AIDS crisis in the late 1980s, her controversial push to test surgical patients, and her eventual departure from mainstream medicine after developing a massive cancerous tumor.

Dr. Day explains how she refused chemotherapy and radiation, instead adopting a rigorous natural healing plan that included a vegan diet, fresh vegetable juicing, sunlight exposure, exercise, stress reduction, and spiritual practice. She details consuming the juice of 35 pounds of carrots and dozens of other vegetables weekly. After reaching the point where she was not expected to survive the night, she recovered fully within 18 months. She also claims knowledge of 300 individuals who reversed their HIV-positive status through similar methods.

Art candidly admits his own unhealthy lifestyle of coffee dependence, meat consumption, overnight hours, and minimal sleep. Dr. Day warns that anger is the true leading cause of death in America and shares how she applied the same program to cure her 85-year-old mother's autoimmune disease, eliminating all medications within weeks.

Key Moments

  1. 300 patients cured of AIDS: Dr. Day tells Bell she personally knows of 300 people who recovered from AIDS using the same natural approach she used for cancer - including patients who had been comatose with histoplasmosis encephalitis - and now test HIV negative.

  2. Lymph nodes are doing their job: Day explains that surgeons routinely remove cancerous lymph nodes - which are actually the body's defensive barrier - then destroy what's left of the immune system with chemo and radiation, allowing cancer to spread everywhere.

  3. Refusing chemo at death's door: Day describes being so close to death from a grapefruit-sized breast cancer tumor that she was not expected to live through the night, yet still refused conventional therapy because she was certain chemo and radiation would finish her off in a day.

  4. The vegan juice protocol that beat her cancer: Day details the regimen she used to reverse cancer: a totally vegan diet, three meals a day, plus 13 fresh vegetable juices daily - 35 pounds of carrots, 84 apples, 21 heads of romaine lettuce, and more each week, with abundant water.