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Episode 7: How to Survive and Thrive
Ty: Why would it fight the chemo
Chris Wark: At the time I was like, what does that mean Well, later I
realized—I found out that the raw food diet is a very aggressive
detoxification diet. And when you’re on a raw food diet your body starts
kicking out chemotherapy and it doesn’t do what they want it to do. It
doesn’t destroy your body. And it doesn’t do the damage they want it to
do. And so they don’t want you to be on a raw food diet. The other
reason is because chemotherapy is also very destructive on your
immune system and bacteria that’s normally harmless on an apple, let’s
say. Could pose a potential problem in your body because your immune
system is so weak from chemo. So they won’t let you—they don’t want
you to do raw food. I was already on the raw food diet. I’d been on it for
a week. I was like hard core. I just adopted it, right. I was excited about
it. I felt going into the clinic I felt very confident about what I was doing.
And everything else he’s told me, everything else the oncologist said to
me is really a blur because he really scared me so bad that I kind of
shut down. And I walked into the clinic confident and I walked out
terrified. And I went to the desk and I made an appointment to get a port
put in to start chemotherapy. And my wife and I walked out into the
parking lot and we sat in her car and we held hands, and we cried and
we prayed, and we were just terrified. And I believe that was on a Friday
because I had a few days before they were supposed to put this port in.
I think it might have been like on Monday or Tuesday or something.
Ty: And when you say a port that’s—they’re putting in a port so
they can—they don’t have to inject you with chemo. They can just
put it directly into the port each time.
Chris Wark: That’s right. They put a port in your chest. Its basically a
direct line into your arteries or whatever, your veins or arteries, so they
can—its easier than giving you a…
Ty: An IV
Chris Wark: It destroys your veins so a port is a better way to do it
because chemotherapy is so toxic that it destroys your veins. So yeah.
they just scared me so bad that I agreed to chemotherapy even though I
had originally decided not to. And—but over that weekend I kind of
came to my senses again and I thought about my life and I thought
about this book and I thought about Jack LaLanne and I thought about
the weird stuff the oncologist said to me. One other thing he said, I
forgot, he said, and sort of in the middle of his pitch, he said, look man.
He’s like, look, and I’m not telling you this because I need your
business. And I just thought why in the world would you say that What
does business have to do with it, right And then I realized wait a
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