Christina Pirello

Diagnosis

At the age of 26, Christina Pirello was diagnosed with terminal leukemia and given only months to live. By the time her illness was identified, the cancer had already advanced to an acute stage. A co-worker introduced her to a young man named Robert Pirello, who was a whole foods advocate,  who helped her adapt her lifestyle and diet based on whole, unprocessed food.  After just two months of eating beans, grains and vegetables cooked following macrobiotic principles, her doctors noticed a significant improvement in her condition. In only fourteen months, her cancer was gone.

 

Diagnosis

At the age of 26, Christina Pirello was diagnosed with terminal leukemia and given only months to live. By the time her illness was identified, the cancer had already advanced to an acute stage. A co-worker introduced her to a young man named Robert Pirello, who was a whole foods advocate,  who helped her adapt her lifestyle and diet based on whole, unprocessed food.  After just two months of eating beans, grains and vegetables cooked following macrobiotic principles, her doctors noticed a significant improvement in her condition. In only fourteen months, her cancer was gone.

 

Christina Pirello’s Health History

Christina’s mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1982 and died in 1984, at the young age of 49. She says that her life was rocked to its core with the passing of her mother and that the conventional treatments that her mother received only seemed to hasten her deterioration. Christina says that she knew at that time that she would never use conventional treatments if she were ever diagnosed with cancer.
She reports that many members of her mother’s side of the family had suffered with numerous health problems such as diabetes, cancer, and anemia, so it was no surprise that she was diagnosed with anemia too, saying that “every female member of her family was plagued with this disease.” At the age of fourteen she decided to become a vegetarian, yet she continued to eat lots of dairy, sugar, and refined foods. She reports that her body seemed to have a hard time healing from cuts and scratches, and that she had bruises that appeared out of nowhere. Her stamina was low and her menstrual cycle was irregular, for this she was prescribed hormone treatments over the next fifteen years.

The Healing Journey

She says that she walked around in a daze for about a week, and then finally confided in a co-worker who suggested that she meet with his friend Bob, who was a practitioner of macrobiotics which was said to have the ability to heal cancer.  She met with Bob that same weekend and he agreed to help her. The next day they went shopping together and she watched as Bob loaded up the cart with unfamiliar foods, and then they went back to her apartment and cleaned out her cupboards, throwing away all the old foods and replacing it with this new healthy food. As Bob left, he handed her a copy of Michio Kushi’s The Cancer Prevention Diet, Revised and Updated Edition: The Macrobiotic Approach to Preventing and Relieving Cancer, telling her to “read and cook.”  She says that she read all night.

They met for lunch every day and Bob brought her leftovers from his own dinner and she continued to read and learn.   After a few weeks, she had lost weight and said that she had more energy but that her blood test showed that her lymphocycte count had worsened.  She began to get scared, but Bob encouraged her to continue on with the diet for another month.

Very soon a toxic discharge began, which included weeks of diarrhea, followed by 8 weeks of break outs that left her itching all over. This was followed by menstrual problems that included the development of an ovarian cyst. She says she found relief with hip baths (sitz style bath) and by drinking Bancha Leaf Tea.

Though she says that the severe detoxing symptoms were nearly unbearable, she knew that her health was improving and every blood test continued to confirm that her white blood-cell counts were getting better.  Her doctors were amazed. They called it “spontaneous regression” and said it was very rare but that it could reverse at any time. She explained to them that she was following a macrobiotic diet, but the doctors did not believe that any kind of diet could have played a role in her healing….but Christina says that she knew differently.

Fourteen months after the beginning the macrobiotic diet Christina’s white cell count was declared within normal range and it has remained there ever since.

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