Dieneke explains, “I had been on all sorts of toxic drugs and the side-effects were terrifying.  At one point I lost my memory for three days, and in 2008, two of the vertebrae in my spine collapsed so I couldn’t walk. They injected some kind of concrete into my spine to keep it stable.”  She adds, “Yet, despite all this, nothing worked: there was just too much cancer — all my options were exhausted, and there was nothing else I could do.”

In 2011, Dieneke decided to try something different. She had been visiting some online supports groups and had read that taking high doses of curcumin might be helpful for patients with meyloma.  She decided to try it since she had nothing to lose. After researching dosage information and doing some experimentation, she eventually worked her way up to taking 8 grams of a bio-available form of curcumin. This form would allow for much higher absorption rates into the bloodstream.  The brand she took was Doctor’s Best Curcumin with C3 Complex & BioPerine. She says the key ingredients to look for are the 3 types of Curcumin which should be labeled as C3 with the addition of bioperine, which is black pepper that also helps the curcumin to absorb better.

Dienke says that she took the dosage all at once on an empty stomach during the evening hours, but she says that because everyone is different, this may not be the best way for you to take it.  She recommends that people start their supplementation plan slowly and build themselves up to taking the higher dosage.

Dieneke followed this dosage schedule:

• 1 gram of curcumin was taken for the first week
• 2 grams of curcumin for the second week
• 4 grams of curcumin for the third week
• 8 grams of curcumin were taken by week four

Dieneke reports that her cancer cell counts began to stabilized and then began decreasing in number. She says, ‘I told my oncologist I was taking it and he was very interested, especially when it apparently made such a difference.’ says Dieneke, 67, who lives in North London.

A few months later she started having weekly hyperbaric oxygen treatments, which involves breathing pure oxygen in an enclosed chamber. HBOT increases the amount of oxygen in the blood and is used to promote healing from various illnesses (including cancer) and as a means to fight infection.

Dieneke’s recovery was so extraordinary that it made the pages of the eminent British Medical Journal as a one-off case report of how a natural ingredient was keeping cancer at bay.  Jamie Cavenagh, professor of blood diseases at London’s Barts Hospital and co-author of the report, said,  ‘Dieneke’s is the best response I have observed and it is clear-cut because we had stopped all other treatment.  When you review her chart, there’s no alternative explanation other than we’re seeing a response to curcumin.’ Five years later, Dieneke’s cancer cell count remains negligible.

Dieneke continues to take 8 grams of the bio-available Curcumin daily to keep the cancer from returning.

More on the benefits of curcumin

Curcumin is the most active constituent of turmeric.  It promotes apoptosis (or cancer cell death) and can halt angiogenesis (which is the development of new blood supply for cancerous tumors), and it can reduce the inflammatory cancer micro-environment.  In addition, it has the ability to block estrogen mimicking chemicals and increase overall immunity of the body.  One of the powerful things that curcumin has the ability to do that chemotherapy and radiation cannot is to specifically target cancer stem cells, which is where all cancer begins.