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I love figs and am growing over 100 varieties of figs on my little fig farm. I sell fig cuttings on my figfair.com website. Fig trees are easy to grow from cuttings. However, one negative thing about figs is that they have a lot of sugar in them. You shouldn't eat more than 3-5 figs per day. I've eaten over 20 per day for weeks at a time in the summer when they become ripe, and I got gout in my ankle from doing that. It went away as soon as I cut back on the figs. So, while figs are great, just make sure you don't go overboard with them.

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When you have a variety that grows outdoors in USDA Zone 4. I'd like to know. A friend used to grow figs in Greece and they were delicious. He unfortunately passed away in his mid 80s from lung cancer. He had about a 40 year history of cigarette smoking.

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I'm not sure about zone 4, but I know people grow figs in Zones 5 and 6 outdoors. There are some cold hardy varieties, like Chicago Hardy fig, that can tolerate the cold weather. They sometimes will die back a little in the winter, but usually grow back from the roots in the spring.

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Hi Michael, Thanks for the link - I have been looking for a couple of fig trees to complete my postage stamp fruit tree garden. Have placed an order for two of the sweet purple. Would you please be so kind as to state how tall and wide this variety grow to become? Again, thnx. Blessings ~

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Thanks, fig trees grow very fast and if planted in the ground in the early spring, a 1-foot tall fig tree will often grow to 6-7 feet or taller by the autumn time. But, they usually max out at about 20-30 feet tall, and about 10-20 feet wide. It is very easy to keep them smaller than that if you don't want them taking up much space by pruning them. I trim my fig trees every year to take cutting off of them, and keep them at about 5-10 feet tall and about 5-10 feet wide. The fig variety you picked is a very good one. It is a fig that I found growing wild at Guajome park in Oceanside, California. Guajome is a Luiseño Indian word that means frog pond. There is a little pond there that has a lot of little frogs in it.

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Thnx for the advise - The remainder of my fruit tree garden, are dwarves. These will be planted center stage.

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I think they’re delicious fresh. We had a brown turkey fig bush in our yard in our last house and I ate them right off the tree. Mild in taste, sweet, you should try them.

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Will figs grow in a tropical climate or do they need a chilling period? Thanks

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Yes, there are a several fig growers in Thailand who grow figs, and they post photos on the fig growers Facebook groups and they grow really nice looking figs out there.

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I've only eaten the dried variety. What are they like ripe?

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They are really juicy and sweet and have a berry flavor. My favorite variety of fig is called the Cherry Cordial fig. It has Ficus Palmata genetics aka Punjab fig or Wild Himalayan fig. Here's a picture of it. https://figfair.com/products/cherry-cordial-fig-tree-2-cuttings-sweet-tangy-berry-flavor-figs?_pos=1&_fid=a1dc04daf&_ss=c

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I wouldn't call figs "juicy" - they are not juicy like citrus; they are more like a gooey sweetness. Between the outer thin skin and the gooey inside is a milky white substance - closer to the stem part. Growing up I used to eat so many straight from my parents' trees that my lips were raw. SO GOOD!

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I agree. Jammy is more of the word I was looking for.

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Gorgeous with Parma ham and slices of sweet milky fresh buffalo mozzarella.😊

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I looked up growing fig from cutting and it looked complicated….I have a wild fig growing out of my driveway (🤷‍♀️) and I need to remove it,but,I don’t want to cut it down:( How do you make it”easy “? Thank you!

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The easiest way to do it is to cut off a few branches about the thickness of a marker or a little thicker (about 6-10 inches long), and stick them in a pot with some potting soil in it so that about half of the cutting is under the soil and half above the soil, and water it every few days so it is damn but not super wet, and keep it in a shady spot. If you do that with 4 cuttings, at least one should root within a month, and possibly all of them will.

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Oh,also,what if it’s a young growth( this feral fig tree) and,it doesn’t have any branches,but,the whole little tree is the size you describe? But,it’s like 6ft tall, Can I just cut the main 6ft trunk, and plant IT in pot to root? Thank you!

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Thank you very much…That certainly sounds easy enough:)

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Sep 2Liked by The Vigilant Fox

Great article. Although, I cringe these days at the phrase “a Harvard study.”

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Ditto. Seems a lot of "studies" have come out of Harvard. Wonder if they've ever done a study on the effect of money on the results of studies. They could focus on their own studies if they have trouble finding participants

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This is brilliant!:

"Wonder if they've ever done a study on the effect of money on the results of studies. "

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And who’s money at that. My money is on the R0ck3fellers.

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😂 Yeah but if they pay for the study the answer will be no, money doesn't influence outcome.

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Now you're giving them ideas. Surely someone is going to be happy to pay for that study. Especially they'll be happy to pay for the conclusion. 😂

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You may enjoy this.:

This is Ben Franklin (as Silence Dogood) writing about Harvard at age 16 :

“…I reflected in my Mind on the extreme Folly of those Parents, who, blind to their Childrens Dullness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will need send them to the Temple of Learning, where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely, (which might as well be acquir’d at a Dancing-School,) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.

…[and] he, without much Study, presently interpreted it, assuring me, That it was a lively Representation of HARVARD COLLEGE, Etcetera. I remain, Sir, Your Humble Servant,

Silence Dogood, (No. 4)

Printed in The New-England Courant, May 14, 1722.

https://thefederalistpapers.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Letters-of-Silence-Dogood.pdf

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I am more interested in cancer preventing. Cancer fighting seems to be the song often sung. “Don’t start none, won’t be none.” Take the song “Static” by James Brown and replace all of the instances of the word “static” with the word “cancer.”

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Here's some literature for peaches:

Fung, T. T., Chiuve, S. E., Willett, W. C., Hankinson, S. E., Hu, F. B., & Holmes, M. D. (2013). Intake of specific fruits and vegetables in relation to risk of estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer among postmenopausal women. Breast cancer research and treatment, 138(3), 925–930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-013-2484-3

Caveat: https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2014/09/two-peaches-lower-the-risk-of-breast-cancer-by-41-puh-lease/

Noratto, G., Porter, W., Byrne, D., & Cisneros-Zevallos, L. (2009). Identifying peach and plum polyphenols with chemopreventive potential against estrogen-independent breast cancer cells. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 57(12), 5219–5226. https://doi.org/10.1021/jf900259m

Vizzotto, M., Porter, W., Byrne, D., & Cisneros-Zevallos, L. (2014). Polyphenols of selected peach and plum genotypes reduce cell viability and inhibit proliferation of breast cancer cells while not affecting normal cells. Food chemistry, 164, 363–370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2014.05.060

About Cancer:

“Heart disease, cancer, medical errors and abuse, accidents, stroke, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes are the main causes of death. These are all preventable. The cure is ‘studying’.” 1

Why aren’t governments collecting and publishing the needed data for observational studies? It’s simple and cheap! 2

The cures for cancer (or any other disease, even if rare), could be found in days, if already in use: all we need is the physicians, hospitals, ministries of health, patients or their survivors, to upload the clinical records of what they already used to treat their patients to a standardized database which applies real-time multi-linear regression:

• disease stage when treatment begun

• test results

• not the prescribed but real life dose/kg and uptake frequency of medicines/food/nutrients/nutraceuticals

• changes in relevant lifestyle data (exercise, sleeping, eating, etc.)

• disease evolution

• survival phases

Also, the platform could help discard current treatments which actually harm or kill patients (e.g. remdesivir, injections).

There could be prizes for the most effective reproducible treatments, like a Nobel for cancer doctors.

There should be a procedure to eliminate or reduce fake data, for example, to check the uploaded photos of documents.

There should be a medical social network for collaboration and dissemination.

We could have done it with COVID treatments! We should prepare the platform for the next PLANNEDemics.

Big mammoth in the room: why hasn’t any government done this? !!!

The cure for cancer? Censored !

Transhumanists are wrong. There’s no cure for death and there will never be, in this universe subject to corruption. We’re all going to die. The vast majority of us will die of cancer or a cardiovascular event. We all know that a “cure for cancer” only means procrastination of death, either with or without cancer.

Why are cheap effective treatments censored as “dangerous misinformation” by social networks?

Why did Google blacklist searches involving “cancer cure” or “cure cancer”? 3

Why is there no compulsory labelling against carcinogenic substances or risks?

Just as they blocked 30 safe-effective-cheap (SEC) treatments for COVID4, they are blocking anything which would save/increase the population, especially of the elderly population by increasing their life expectancy.

Prevention is better than radiation: avoid and act

1. Avoid:

• COVID spike protein, from long COVID, COVID haccines and haccine shedding 5

• mRNA and DNA vaccines

• Childhood vaccination schedule

• Toxic food (non-organic food and beverages).

◦ artificial sweeteners6

◦ acrylamides from crispy/brown carbohydrates (fries, cereals) 7

◦ ultra-processed foods

◦ hot food/beverages in plastic or plastic coated containers PFAS

◦ coffee

◦ salted, cured or smoked meat, etc.

• Some carbohydrates (nb sugar8), leading to obesity and diabetes9

• Excess alcohol

• Smoke (not only tobacco)

• X-rays

• Radon gas: gauge before building, buying or renting a house

• Non-barrier birth control (hormonal10 and IUD). Endometrial and breast cancer are hormone dependent.

• Hormonal replacement

• Artificial insemination and egg donation (n.b. hormonal ovarian stimulation11)

• Tubal ligation

• Vasectomy

• EMFs 12

• Donations, usually not tested for carcinogenic viruses:

◦ Human milk banks

◦ Blood

◦ Organs

• Ultraviolet rays: sunshine, tanning beds.

• Biological carcinogens: certain viruses, fungi (aflatoxin), bacteria and parasites

• 300 carcinogenic substances: arsenic, asbestos, formaldehyde, etc.13

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/758434393482039242/

2. Lifestyle, not death-style:

• Physical activity

• Healthy diet 14

• 7-8 hours quality sleep (more in children, less in elderly)

• Fasting: “Fasting for a certain number of hours each day can flip the metabolic switch 1, from a carbohydrate-dominated state to a fat- or ketone-burning state.” 15

• Uninfected sex (e.g. lifetime faithful marriage): sexually transmitted carcinogenic viruses like hepatitis, HPV16, herpes, EBV17, MMTV18, etc. are neither prevented by vaccines nor condoms, and are breastfed to the babies 19 Unnatural sex (oral, anal), increases the problem. Eventually, promiscuity costs many lives (yours and all your partners) and society pays for the expensive cancer treatments.

• To reduce the risk of breast cancer, have as many children as possible and breastfeed them as much as possible, even using breast pumps and fridged milk (ideally, 3 years but not more)20.

God willingly, I will post the full article, with many successful treatments in about 3 weeks.

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Professor Nazar,

I had tubal ligation, which you mentioned, back in 1996 (age 32) with Filshie Clips. I have read that 25% of these clips migrate. Whilst I haven’t had any issues, at now age 60, I was wondering why you listed tubal ligation. Could you say please?

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This is a quick summary of a 5 hour research. You might like to commission an in-depth article on this topic or on cures for cancer at my Ko-fi account.

How much weight did you gain in the year after the surgery? Any complication from the surgery?

Tubal ligation may cause ectopic pregnancies when failing to prevent conception. Surgical mistakes could damage bowel, bladder, or major blood vessels. Post-tubal ligation syndrome (PTLS) involves a decline in thyrotropin (TSH), estrogen and progesterone, with higher cancer risk and BMI (belly fat, obesity), which also increases cancer risk.

No study was designed to account for essential confounding factors: age cohort, lower rate of Pap screening compared with women with contraception or pregnancies (more regular visits), talc, parity/births (more breastfed children, less cancer), total breastfeeding time (less breastfeeding, more cancer), number of procured abortions (more abortions, more cancer), type and duration of contraception (more cancer), STDs before and after surgery (more promiscuity, more STDs, more cancer), anal sex, Hormone Replacement Therapy, BMI, family and personal history of cancer, etc.

Koch M, Starreveld AA, Hill GB, Jenkins H. The effect of tubal ligation on the incidence of epithelial cancer of the ovary. Cancer Detect Prev. 1984;7(4):241-5. PMID: 6488215. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6488215/

Mathews CA, Stoner JA et al. Tubal ligation frequency in Oklahoma women with cervical cancer. Nov 2012. Gynecologic Oncology, Volume 127, Issue 2, 278 – 282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygyno.2012.07.119

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230615489_Tubal_Ligation_Frequency_in_Oklahoma_Women_with_Cervical_Cancer

“invasive serous low-grade cancer… Among women with invasive endometrioid cancer, tubal ligation was associated with higher tumour grade… Tubal ligation has been hypothesized to reduce blood flow to the ovary resulting in altered levels of hormones…”

Sieh W, Salvador S, et al. Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, Tubal ligation and risk of ovarian cancer subtypes: a pooled analysis of case-control studies, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 579–589, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyt042

Tubal ligation only reduces the risk of certain ovarian cancers in people with an unhealthy lifestyle. In the benefit/risk analysis, it’s recommended to adjust the lifestyle, considering the weighted average tubal ligation surgical mortality rate of 1.2 per 1000 (it increases with age at surgery) and other direct or side effects:

Deane RT, Ulene A. Hysterectomy or tubal ligation for sterilization: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Inquiry : a Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing. 1977 Mar;14(1):73-86. PMID:139373. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29771053

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Beautiful!

Blessings~

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Really love your peaches want to shake your tree

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Ha! Ha! I see what you did there.

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Hey guys look to Amygdala in Apricot seeds. Anything the media has tried to whitewash over the years gives me pause. You can find it on Amazon.

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Tastes like fucking shit btw 🤢

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Sorry and of course Ivermectin and Fenbendazole….In that order.

If I was ever diagnosed with it that would be my treatment. Hey it worked for my old man. Got his intestines cut out couple years ago. He only used fenben but did so immediately after. The chemo almost killed him and sent him back to ICU.

It’s best to die on your feet folks. There’s somethings worse than death. 😉

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I take and give Sorry regularly! 🤪😂. Sorry 😲

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Hello Vigilant Fox - Thank you for all of the wonderful articles and your vigilance!

Blessings ~

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Good info, but keep in mind that the human body “ makes” cancer cells, they don’t invade like a pathogen.

The items mentioned ( and many more natural foods) can keep the body from making cancer cells in the first place, so it’s best to eat the rainbow of foods all of the time - not only as a treatment some may do.

It’s also important to keep the rainbow (Black raspberries, figs, peaches, etc) organic and non gmo, as why consume fruits and veggies that are heavily sprayed with toxic and cancer causing pesticides?

Clean food = clean body.

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Great news, thank you for passing it on. Wild Blackberries grow all over britain at the end of summer. They are delicious.

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Same over here. So I do hope that is the berry the author means. Blackberry and apple jam anyone?

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Edgar Casey promotes figs too!

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I just planted three LSU figs next to my brown turkey fig tree and I’m so excited to see how they fare! My sweet neighbors have peach trees and they pass out bags of their harvest to the neighbors every Spring. Growing my own food has been the greatest passion of this time of life. Cut loose of Big Ag and the food industry as much as you can. Raise your children and grandchildren to be farmers and self sufficient people.

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I have LSU Tiger fig and Brown Turkey fig and they are booth good. But, my favorite fig is the Cherry Cordial fig. They have a tangy flavor that is different from other figs. Here's a picture of it. https://figfair.com/products/cherry-cordial-fig-tree-2-cuttings-sweet-tangy-berry-flavor-figs?_pos=1&_fid=a1dc04daf&_ss=c

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Black raspberries? We call them blackberries in Scotland. They have been out in the hedgerows for around a month now and should last another month before they are gone. Best to eat them wild from hedgerows etc or your garden where you know no chemicals have been dumped on them rather than from shops where you can guarantee, organic or not, that they have had something sprayed on them. I have a couple of patches of them in the garden and just eat them from the bush. My chickens seem to like them but surprisingly other birds don't seem to eat them much and they rot on the bushes if I don't take them..

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I did wonder about the picture because they definitely look like blackberries which have a solid core. Black raspberries have a hollow core and are much bigger and more pointy rather than round so it would be good to clarify. Either the picture used(of blackberries)was the wrong picture or the author mistakenly calls blackberries black raspberries. Any thoughts anyone?

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Thanks for posting this. I have done much research on the immune system (check out TheLibertyPalm). I really like how others are concerned about the threat of our own corrupt cells. Also, I didn't know peaches are good cancer-fighting foods, so thank you for teaching me. God bless, Vigilant Fox.

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Apricot kernels for cancer prevention

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Warning: INDIVIDUAL RESULTS WILL VARY!

Here is the thing - I am a cancer survivor. I have a number of friends that are too and some that did not.

The above "recommendations" are strangely .. well not fully proven one way or the other. I and friends are always told, strangely - by people that never had cancer, but read or heard ... that Salt ( various kinds ) and the above and such " ... work ..."

Strangely - NO THEY DID NOT FOR US!

. o O ( .. and not for lack of trying .... )

So please, when you push this 'stuff' ... state that it's at best - Weak research and yes:

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS WILL VARY AND THIS ( THESE ) WILL ***NOT*** WORK FOR EVERYONE!

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I understand your frustration. These things, if they formed part of your diet, all your life, might be protective against cancer. So of course would removing many additives from foods, plastics from water, all the stuff we’ve brought on as “ progress” in the past 50 years. I doubt they would cure if you just started eating them as a “ cancer treatment “. Good food is good food. But fads are fads and are certainly not a cure. I suspect that what the guy who was growing them was hoping was that people might consider growing more food themselves and eating less manufactured or processed food and more fresh. Cancer is a very difficult and it takes a lot of courage to get through it. I hope you’re staying well and getting some joy from your life.

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Your key words, prove my point: "... all your life, MIGHT BE protective ..."

And, then again - it might NOT be ... you also make an assumption that I do not, nor my fiends ate / eat healthy. That would not be an accurate assumption.

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Lucky you, to be a “ cancer survivor” I have friends who are not, because they died. So, I chose to use the word “your” for its impersonal, generic, way of denoting “ people in general” rather than using “one’s” which is also detached and impersonal but considered stilted and not much used in common parlance these days. My “ key words” as you call them, did not prove your point because it was I who made the point. Furthermore, “might be” does not in any sense connote “would be”. No assumptions were made about you or any of your “fiends” in my comment. I used the word “people” because the definition of “people” is, “human beings in general”, so I wrote an observation about human beings in general not any person in particular. Now, as my granny would say, “ Put that in your pipe and smoke it”! Metaphorically speaking of course. 😊

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... I did not post ( on purpose ) those of my friends who also were NOT Cancer Survivors. They too tried - before they had cancer, some had genetic history of cancer ...

So I pray you never get cancer ... it's not fun. It is strange how many people who have had no 1st or 2nd hand experience with cancer are always the ones to give advice as to 'what they read / heard' and such. Not knowing at all the FINE PRINT and such.

I did not understand my friends that had cancer before I did as to the advice they got from well meaning people, just ignorant to reality and "individual results may and will vary"... one gets.

When I was diagnosed with my cancer, I then totally understood where they were coming from and they were right!

When it was my turn to get 'cancer advice' ... as I learned from my friends, to ask this question:

- What is your medical training in Cancer?

- What research did you do, besides just reading / hearing cancer advice?

- Have you or anyone you know tried this with successful results?

. o O ( Strange the answer is always, ".. well, um... no..." )

So I will quote you: "...Put that in your pipe and smoke it”! Metaphorically speaking of course...."

Let me know when you get solid answers from Cancer Survivors .. because obviously those of my friends and yours, who did not survive ... are not able to deny or confirm... only those who are survivors can!

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Oh indeed, (wryly) and I can say the same from MS survivors, advised to seek a miracle from a “ fellow down the country who has a cure for that”! Offer rejected, the answer came, huffily “Well, you obviously want, to be sick so!” Hmmmm. Or from the MS nurse, directly after diagnosis, “ Don’t for a minute think this is the last disease you will get”! (One’s eyes widen) She was proven correct, still…. some people! Over a lifetime many people survive many experiences from cancer to heart disease, loss through suicide and much more. “Your health is your wealth” my mother used to say. Now I know one’s health is one’s wealth but one doesn’t always get to keep it, unfortunately. But, we shall keep trying.😊

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Are black raspberry’s and blackberries very different? And Red Raspberry does not have the same property as the black? Thank you.

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I received advanced nursing degree early 1980’s. Food/ nutrition/medicine like this not in any courses. So I start over my education from scratch. At least I learned to search online

somewhere. And heal myself as much as possible. And my dog. No people/ pet doctors unless we are dying. Or legit referral .

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Wow great info! Living food as medicine is the best.

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