Of course, I took the conventional route first and visited many medical doctors who tried to help.They prescribed the strongest morphine possible, yet it was not enough.

In May 1997, I heard Brian Clement speak in the United Kingdom. As soon as Brian started to speak, I turned to my neighbor and said, "At last someone is speaking my language!" The subject that day was "Optimum Food".

She was going to do chemo but I thanked the customer for the information but didn’t think it was for me at the time.

The doctors then performed a series of tests to examine my brain, blood and muscles and could not determine what was making me ill.

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The next six months were nothing short of miserable.

As life sometimes goes, we have unexpected setbacks. Recently I fell and hit my head; my skull was split wide open.

I am a medical herbalist of 16 years, originally inspired to study herbs by my own healing journey when I was 11 years old.

Larry had what is called a massive myocardial infarction, losing 50% of his heart muscle the whole back of his heart.

My first great fortune was meeting my wife to whom I was married for 37 years. Sadly she passed away from cancer.

I had to force myself to go to work and the moment I got home I would fall into bed. All I could think about was how I would do it the next day.

Even today, people with HIV/AIDS suffer from social stigma, but there is also a self-stigma that comes from within.

I started to look into alternative medicine. I tried acupuncture, kinesiology massage, reflexology, Chinese medicine, colonics, meditation, and Qi gong.

During the next two weeks my health deteriorated. The itching was so intolerable that despite heavy dosages of Ambien I could not sleep.

My doctors told me I should follow the Canadian food pyramid, which I attempted for three years.

My search for all relevant information about survival started, interestingly enough, with a little pamphlet I still keep on my desk.

After being hospitalized five times, the doctors sent me home and told me that Gilbert Syndrome was nothing to worry about.

Because of my good fortune, I continue to enjoy a much improved life, which has influenced five members of my family to attend Hippocrates, thereby si

My visit turned out to be extraordinary, after all the years of failing I could not believe what was happening.

Throughout the years, I've met many people who have overcome disease. Some have used the HHI principles, and others have not.

Immediately, I started conventional treatments. In parallel, I started researching cancer prevention, feeling that if I do not change something “the beast” would come back.

Time passed. I reached 50 and realized that I had been slowly dying all my life. I retired early because of health concerns and entered the hospital where they diagnosed me with angioma cancer.

During the first week, my blood-sugar became normal and, within three days, I stopped taking the glucophage. I learned that the pain and disease in my body had an emotional component.

Thank goodness the doctors in the emergency room possessed great resilience because they spent eighteen hours working on me.