Healing Wise

Peel Power

Dear Susun,

The New Menopausal Years The Wise Woman Way is a godsend-just finished reading it.  Thanks for sharing your wisdom! 2 quick questions:

Must Peel Power be refrigerated; how long does it last?

1. I understand we need animal fats to fully utilize the minerals from green sources. I’ve started drinking lots of  herbal infusions; but since most of the time I’m drinking them between meals (i.e. without consuming any  animal fat) I’m concerned I’m not getting maximal benefit from them.  Should I be drinking them with meals?  Or doing something else to maximize mineral absorption?

Many thanks!

 

These are great questions!  I am so glad you are enjoying Susun's book, and will be sure to pass on your kind words.  She does not have internet to be able to correspond through email.  I wish I could answer for sure about the peel power.  I myself have always refrigerated it, but imagine a simple experiment would do to answer the question since all we have to worry about is a little mold which we will see.  

I too think animal fats are essential to helping us digest, though have thought this to be true of helping us digest the proteins.  I am unsure of the minerals in green foods.  For the minerals I have heard vinegar will help us as well as dairy, which is why some cook their greens in cream or milk.  I know Susun speaks highly about combining properly to get the most nutrition, and she speaks highly about organic dairy.  For meats I have heard her suggest for some all that is needed is a birthday steak ... once a year....

I would also love to invite you to our Wise Woman Forum (http://www.herbshealing.com/wisewomanforum.htm) and Email Discussion Group (http://groups.google.com/group/Herbal-Healing) for more ideas and support.

We welcome you to join our Weed Wanderings ezine mailing list at http://www.herbshealing.com/WeedWanderings.htm !

Blessings,

Karen Joy

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http://www.wisewomanweb.com

"Threat" of Cervical Cancer

Dear Susan,

 

I just discovered you and find your articles very empowering.

 

Yesterday my boyfriend dumped me and my gynecologist told me I "probably" have cervical cancer (lucky me--a double whammy).

Exactly 6 months from my birthday (Aug. 4).  She based this on a look at my Pap smear under the microscope--said she didn't like what she saw--lots of white cells and who knows what else..  Is it possible to make such a definitive diagnosis without proof?  I've had abnormal paps for last 2 years (LSIL to HSIL) but biopsies and

colposcopy were normal.  I am very upset and feel in limbo.  Should I beleive her clinical experience? what a shock.

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Hello Monica, we are so glad you enjoy Susun's articles!  I can hear your grief and overwhelm.  As I understand it, cells go through changes on their way to becoming cancerous.  These changed cells are what show up and make the reader see your pap test as abnormal.  These changing cells, I believe, can be changed back.  Once cancer cells they can not be changed back but can be killed. 

 It is possible that some of us have a cancer cell or two in us and it is killed by our wonderful immune system.  Please do not hang on to a fixed idea of "you have cancer" even if you do have cancerous cells.  I think seeing it as what is in your body, you can better work with it.  It is always up for interpretation by the person reading the tsts.  There is room for error of course, and there are some guesses, though it is possible this woman is correct.  I can start you with some articles from Susun about cancer.  They are excerpts from her book Breast Cancer? Breast Health! so they relate in general to breast care, but the parts about cancer and anti-cancer lifestyles still apply:

 

~ Breast Health  Particularly read the list of "Things that counter and reverse the initiation, promotion, and growth of cancer"

~ Eight Steps for a Woman Dancing with Cancer 

~ 5 Things to Help Prevent [Breast] Cancer Still applicable to you

~ Anti-Cancer Lifestyle

~ What is Breast Cancer?  Excellent explanation of cancer cells and when they are a risk

 

It sounds like you do not know whether or not you have cancer, it seems possible though there is warning enough that it is possible, I encourage you to employ all nourishing ideas in these articles that appeal to you.  Eat a healthy diet, as you feel it would be, and be sure to be active, and support a strong immune system.  Even if you get a clean bill of health I would continue these practices, as I do, without any reason to believe I have cancer at the moment.  I would also encourage you to do as you are here, and that is gather information from a variety of sources to help you understand these tests, and why your doctor is thinking as she is with what she has seen.  

 I wish you the best.  Please let me know if I can help further.

 

Blessings,

Karen Joy

[email protected]

www.wisewomanweb.com