Healthy lifestyle helps cancer warrior to triumph over disease

“I am cancer-no cost! Tears of pleasure!” 

Dina Zulueta, a wife, mother, yoga teacher, mindfulness meditation instructor, and primary mover of the Save the Trees Coalition primarily based in Pampanga, shared her information of joy with matching joyful and crying emojis on Wednesday, March 15, following getting beneficial final results from her positron emission tomography (PET) scan.

It marked the next time she overcame a lifetime-threatening healthcare predicament posed by cancer.

Dina’s to start with bout transpired in 2000 when she had been diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma. 

Her youngest daughter was just 10 months outdated at the time, and her initial reaction was, “Hindi ako puwedeng mamatay! (I won’t die!)” 

Dina, who was 33 yrs old then, had shed her mother at the exact age and did not want her youngsters to practical experience the similar loss.

She sought advice from Dr. Omar Arabia II, a dietary oncologist, who recommended protocols for her that involved a food plan wealthy in sure fruits and veggies though avoiding meat and processed foods. 

Dina followed the approved protocols and underwent chemotherapy, in the end reaching remission.

2nd time

In 2021, Dina felt some thing in her breast and was encouraged to undergo a biopsy and chemotherapy. She was diagnosed with breast cancer. 

She was established, nonetheless, to prevent likely by the chemotherapy process once again. She explained, “I have been as a result of all that just before.” 

Right after reflecting on her knowledge, Dina identified that she experienced been below enormous anxiety owing to her involvement with the STC’s combat to secure 259 trees on the Fil-Am Friendship Road in Pampanga from remaining felled as section of a highway-widening job by the Section of Public Operates and Highways (DPWH). 

(The STC is at this time attractive the court’s decision to dissolve a non permanent environmental security order [TEPO].)

“They are historical acacia and balete (genus Ficus) trees that sort a cover!” she exclaimed.

Dina had recovered from her to start with ailment, and she experienced occasionally indulged in processed foods and sweet treats.

Using the holistic route

Dread set in for Dina when she acquired the news about her problem, but she refused to work on it. In its place, she turned to meditation. 

She consulted with Dr. Arabia who recommended juicing, supplementation, and enema to raise her immune system before her mastectomy. 

Dina recalled getting told by the medical doctor, “We have to secure your human body ahead of they acquire it out so that your entire body can just take it.”

There was also an additional situation: her tooth fillings.

Dina had also sought the advice of Dr. Rico Jose Manuel “Bok” David, whom she experienced achieved by means of a team that invites speakers for their conversations. 

In an job interview with Rappler, David stated that practical medication does not give a overcome for cancer but can deliver guidance and complementary remedy through the approach.

David commences his treatment method method by obtaining clients entire a 17-website page questionnaire, which allows assess the fundamental results in of various sicknesses. 

He then operates to reduce destructive components and switch them with balanced choices, these as swapping processed foodstuff for greens.

“In Dina’s circumstance, we appeared into toxicity stages. There have been scientific studies that have located that superior ranges of mercury toxicity are connected to some cancers. [In years past], dental amalgam fillings contained a massive amount of money of mercury,” David mentioned.

He stated the detoxing ability may differ amongst men and women. “It is not the exact same for each human being due to the fact just about every human being can detoxify. In Dina’s case, she was pretty pressured and her immune method was weak. But these are specific instances, and apply to only 10% of the population.”

Dina underwent an high priced examination that required samples of her hair, blood, and urine. Given that this kind of assessments have been not out there in the Philippines, the samples ended up despatched to a foreign laboratory.

The success confirmed that Dina’s amount was in the 99th percentile which, according to Dina, meant that between all the persons who had been analyzed, significantly less than 1% experienced a higher level than hers.

To deal with the concern, Dina had her amalgam fillings taken out from six of her teeth and drilled out of a few others suspected to have smaller quantities of mercury. 

“It was so painful! But my dentist was so compassionate all over the full course of action,” she recounted.

Apart from getting rid of the fillings, Dina followed David’s prescription of a eating plan rich in fruits and vegetables and devoid of processed foodstuff and sweets these types of as cakes and donuts. 

The doctor also advised supplementation and infusion as aspect of her mercury detoxification plan.

Therapeutic route

In February 2023, Dina underwent screening for mercury stages in her blood and urine following six months of adhering to protocols. 

She been given the results on March 8 – incidentally, Worldwide Women’s Day and her youngest child’s 23rd birthday – and verified that her mercury concentrations had long gone down from .0352 micrograms for every gram to only .0049 ug/g.

“I did my investigate and I meditated very long and really hard on it. I listened to my system, and selected the path to wellness that certainly resonated with me,” she explained.

Acknowledging the guidance she gained through her journey, Dina credited her household, which include her husband Obet, daughters Pau, Miles, and Bea, and helpers Mhai and Zhed. She also expressed gratitude to her other physicians – Dr. Gab Cruz, Dr. May well Cuballes, and Dr. Angel Aquino – as effectively as pals.

“I know and I come to feel they helped large time,” she stated.

Now 54 yrs aged, Dina suggests she feels happy, “I truly feel great and I feel strong!” Most importantly, it has been confirmed that she is cancer-cost-free!  – Rappler.com

Mari-An Santos is an Aries Rufo Fellow.