Lorraine Day
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Lorraine Jeanette Day M.D. (July 24, 1937 – ) is a practitioner of alternative medicine
who claims to have discovered the cause and cure of cancer
, as a result of God
showing her how to recover from her own cancer with a 10 step plan. According to her theory, all cancers are due to weakness of the immune system
which must be cured by diet
. "All diseases are caused by a combination of three factors: malnutrition
, dehydration
, and stress
."
A former surgeon
, she is now completely opposed to mainstream medicine, claiming that "the entire foundation of conventional medicine is based on error," that standard cancer treatment has never cured anyone, and that nobody should undergo chemotherapy
or radiation treatment for cancer or use vaccination
for infectious disease
.
She also rejects the common medical theories regarding the causes and cures of ADHD, SARS, anthrax
, smallpox
, bird flu
, and vision
problems. Her theory implicates many common foods as harmful, such as "sugar
is as addictive
as cocaine
" and "paralyzes the immune system for four hours" and "the more milk
you drink, the more osteoporotic
you become." She claims that drug
s never cure disease and maintains a website
where she markets books, videotape, and alternative medicines such as Barley Green.
In 2004, she began marketing her "Cancer Doesn't Scare Me Anymore" videotape with an infomercial
which was declared to be "misleading" by the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus in December 2004.
, School of Medicine in 1969 and trained in orthopedic surgery
at two San Francisco hospitals. She became an associate professor and vice chairman of the Department of Orthopedics at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and chief of orthopedic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital
. During the mid-1980s, she received considerable media attention related to the risk of acquiring AIDS
through exposure to the blood of AIDS patients during trauma surgery
, publishing a book, AIDS: What the Government Isn't Telling You, wherein she states that in 1989 she retired from surgery due to the excessive risk of acquiring AIDS.
Day's website, books, and videos describe the experience with cancer which led to her conclusions regarding disease. In 1992 she noticed a small lump in her breast, but did not seek medical care for another year. The pathology report from her excisional biopsy
on October 26, 1993, posted on her website, reports a 1.7 centimeter tumor
containing an infiltrating ductal adenocarcinoma
extending to the margins of the biopsy specimen. Her medical report from November 2, 1993 advised removal of a wider chest area as well as the lymph node
s in her armpit, followed by radiation treatment. Day underwent wide excision, but refused drugs, chemotherapy, and radiation. She began eating a strict vegan diet, eliminated all refined sugar and processed foods, and began drinking large amounts of vegetable juice. When her tumor returned nine months later, she realized that "diet was not enough" and tried forty different "alternative methods . . . one after the other".
She also believes that Jews
are trying to take over the world, and that the Holocaust is a hoax used for the stated purpose "to destroy all nations, control the entire world, slaughter most of the population of the earth, and reduce the rest to slaves."
Alternative medicine
Alternative medicine is any healing practice, "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine." It is based on historical or cultural traditions, rather than on scientific evidence....
who claims to have discovered the cause and cure of cancer
Cancer
Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
, as a result of God
God
God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....
showing her how to recover from her own cancer with a 10 step plan. According to her theory, all cancers are due to weakness of the immune system
Immune system
An immune system is a system of biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease by identifying and killing pathogens and tumor cells. It detects a wide variety of agents, from viruses to parasitic worms, and needs to distinguish them from the organism's own...
which must be cured by diet
Diet (nutrition)
In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. With the word diet, it is often implied the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management...
. "All diseases are caused by a combination of three factors: malnutrition
Malnutrition
Malnutrition is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking, in excess , or in the wrong proportions....
, dehydration
Dehydration
In physiology and medicine, dehydration is defined as the excessive loss of body fluid. It is literally the removal of water from an object; however, in physiological terms, it entails a deficiency of fluid within an organism...
, and stress
Stress (medicine)
Stress is a term in psychology and biology, borrowed from physics and engineering and first used in the biological context in the 1930s, which has in more recent decades become commonly used in popular parlance...
."
A former surgeon
Surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...
, she is now completely opposed to mainstream medicine, claiming that "the entire foundation of conventional medicine is based on error," that standard cancer treatment has never cured anyone, and that nobody should undergo chemotherapy
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen....
or radiation treatment for cancer or use vaccination
Vaccination
Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material to stimulate the immune system of an individual to develop adaptive immunity to a disease. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate the effects of infection by many pathogens...
for infectious disease
Infectious disease
Infectious diseases, also known as communicable diseases, contagious diseases or transmissible diseases comprise clinically evident illness resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism...
.
She also rejects the common medical theories regarding the causes and cures of ADHD, SARS, anthrax
Anthrax
Anthrax is an acute disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Most forms of the disease are lethal, and it affects both humans and other animals...
, smallpox
Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning "spotted", or varus, meaning "pimple"...
, bird flu
H5N1
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, also known as "bird flu", A or simply H5N1, is a subtype of the influenza A virus which can cause illness in humans and many other animal species...
, and vision
Visual perception
Visual perception is the ability to interpret information and surroundings from the effects of visible light reaching the eye. The resulting perception is also known as eyesight, sight, or vision...
problems. Her theory implicates many common foods as harmful, such as "sugar
Sugar
Sugar is a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavor.Sucrose in its refined form primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet...
is as addictive
Substance use disorder
Substance use disorders include substance abuse and substance dependence. In DSM-IV, the conditions are formally diagnosed as one or the other, but it has been proposed that DSM-5 combine the two into a single condition called "Substance-use disorder"....
as cocaine
Cocaine
Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
" and "paralyzes the immune system for four hours" and "the more milk
Milk
Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the mother's antibodies to the baby and can reduce the risk of many...
you drink, the more osteoporotic
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a disease of bones that leads to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density is reduced, bone microarchitecture is deteriorating, and the amount and variety of proteins in bone is altered...
you become." She claims that drug
Drug
A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function. There is no single, precise definition, as there are different meanings in drug control law, government regulations, medicine, and colloquial usage.In pharmacology, a...
s never cure disease and maintains a website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
where she markets books, videotape, and alternative medicines such as Barley Green.
In 2004, she began marketing her "Cancer Doesn't Scare Me Anymore" videotape with an infomercial
Infomercial
Infomercials are direct response television commercials which generally include a phone number or website. There are long-form infomercials, which are typically between 15 and 30 minutes in length, and short-form infomercials, which are typically 30 seconds to 120 seconds in length. Infomercials...
which was declared to be "misleading" by the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus in December 2004.
Biography
Day graduated from the University of California, San FranciscoUniversity of California, San Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco is one of the world's leading centers of health sciences research, patient care, and education. UCSF's medical, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, and graduate schools are among the top health science professional schools in the world...
, School of Medicine in 1969 and trained in orthopedic surgery
Orthopedic surgery
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system...
at two San Francisco hospitals. She became an associate professor and vice chairman of the Department of Orthopedics at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and chief of orthopedic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco General Hospital is the main public hospital in San Francisco, California, and the only Level I Trauma Center serving San Francisco and northern San Mateo County...
. During the mid-1980s, she received considerable media attention related to the risk of acquiring AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
through exposure to the blood of AIDS patients during trauma surgery
Trauma surgery
Trauma surgery is a surgical specialty involved in the invasive treatment of physical injuries, typically in an emergency setting. Trauma surgeons generally complete residency training in general surgery and often fellowship training in trauma or surgical critical care...
, publishing a book, AIDS: What the Government Isn't Telling You, wherein she states that in 1989 she retired from surgery due to the excessive risk of acquiring AIDS.
Day's website, books, and videos describe the experience with cancer which led to her conclusions regarding disease. In 1992 she noticed a small lump in her breast, but did not seek medical care for another year. The pathology report from her excisional biopsy
Biopsy
A biopsy is a medical test involving sampling of cells or tissues for examination. It is the medical removal of tissue from a living subject to determine the presence or extent of a disease. The tissue is generally examined under a microscope by a pathologist, and can also be analyzed chemically...
on October 26, 1993, posted on her website, reports a 1.7 centimeter tumor
Tumor
A tumor or tumour is commonly used as a synonym for a neoplasm that appears enlarged in size. Tumor is not synonymous with cancer...
containing an infiltrating ductal adenocarcinoma
Adenocarcinoma
Adenocarcinoma is a cancer of an epithelium that originates in glandular tissue. Epithelial tissue includes, but is not limited to, the surface layer of skin, glands and a variety of other tissue that lines the cavities and organs of the body. Epithelium can be derived embryologically from...
extending to the margins of the biopsy specimen. Her medical report from November 2, 1993 advised removal of a wider chest area as well as the lymph node
Lymph node
A lymph node is a small ball or an oval-shaped organ of the immune system, distributed widely throughout the body including the armpit and stomach/gut and linked by lymphatic vessels. Lymph nodes are garrisons of B, T, and other immune cells. Lymph nodes are found all through the body, and act as...
s in her armpit, followed by radiation treatment. Day underwent wide excision, but refused drugs, chemotherapy, and radiation. She began eating a strict vegan diet, eliminated all refined sugar and processed foods, and began drinking large amounts of vegetable juice. When her tumor returned nine months later, she realized that "diet was not enough" and tried forty different "alternative methods . . . one after the other".
She also believes that Jews
Jews
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
are trying to take over the world, and that the Holocaust is a hoax used for the stated purpose "to destroy all nations, control the entire world, slaughter most of the population of the earth, and reduce the rest to slaves."
Ten Steps to Fight Cancer
Dr Day developed and promotes the “Ten Steps to Fight Cancer”.- 1. Proper nutritionNutritionNutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet....
- explains what the patient should and should not eat. A diet of fruit, grains and vegetables in their most natural state is recommended – 75% is eaten raw – and excludes all meat, poultry, fish, dairy products, eggs, sugar and refined foods. Elimination of stimulants includes sugar, tobacco, alcoholAlcoholIn chemistry, an alcohol is an organic compound in which the hydroxy functional group is bound to a carbon atom. In particular, this carbon center should be saturated, having single bonds to three other atoms....
, street drugs, drug medications, monosodium glutamateMonosodium glutamateMonosodium glutamate, also known as sodium glutamate or MSG, is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, one of the most abundant naturally occurring non-essential amino acids....
, aspartameAspartameAspartame is an artificial, non-saccharide sweetener used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages. In the European Union, it is codified as E951. Aspartame is a methyl ester of the aspartic acid/phenylalanine dipeptide. It was first sold under the brand name NutraSweet; since 2009 it...
and other sugar substitutes, and caffeineCaffeineCaffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid that acts as a stimulant drug. Caffeine is found in varying quantities in the seeds, leaves, and fruit of some plants, where it acts as a natural pesticide that paralyzes and kills certain insects feeding on the plants...
(which dehydrates the body). When Day was sick, in addition to her vegan vegetarian diet of 3 meals a day, she drank 8 glasses of freshly made carrot juiceCarrot juiceCarrot juice is juice produced from carrots, often consumed as a health drink. Carrot juice has a particularly high content of β-carotene, a source of vitamin A, but it is also high in B complex vitamins like folate, and many minerals including calcium, copper, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, and...
, 4 glasses of fresh green leafy vegetable juiceVegetable juiceVegetable juice is a drink made primarily of blended vegetables. Vegetable juice is often mixed with fruits such as tomatoes or grapes to improve flavor...
and 1 glass of fresh orange juiceOrange juiceOrange juice is a popular beverage made from oranges. It is made by extraction from the fresh fruit, by desiccation and subsequent reconstitution of dried juice, or by concentration of the juice and the subsequent addition of water to the concentrate...
. - 2. Exercise - we must do exercise which we could enjoy.
- 3. Drink water - the body needs water to transport nutrients to healthy cells and to excrete toxins. There should be a minimum of 10-12 glasses per day. (We lose 10 glasses of water from our body every day, just by living - it is imperative to replace the water losses).
- 4. Sunlight exposure - we need sunlight in order to boost our immune systemImmune systemAn immune system is a system of biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease by identifying and killing pathogens and tumor cells. It detects a wide variety of agents, from viruses to parasitic worms, and needs to distinguish them from the organism's own...
. An hour a day is recommended in the early morning. (Proper nutrition protects against skin cancerSkin cancerSkin neoplasms are skin growths with differing causes and varying degrees of malignancy. The three most common malignant skin cancers are basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer, and melanoma, each of which is named after the type of skin cell from which it arises...
, and sunlight is claimed to actually decrease the size of internal cancerous tumors). - 5. Temperance - we should avoid our unhealthy habits.
- 6. Fresh air - we need a fresh air environment because cancer grows faster when a person breathes uncirculated indoor air.
- 7. Proper rest at proper time - we have to rest at a proper time as this makes our immune system stronger.
- 8. Stress relief - we have to be relaxed especially after stressful work.
- 9. Attitude of gratitude - think positive and be happy in order to be healed effectively.
- 10. Spiritual benevolence - do what is good not only to ourselves but also to others.