Her diet at the time was fast food, drive- through dinners, and a steady stream of sugar. Health food store staff pointed her toward the obvious culprit, and she decided to try a five-day vegetable juice fast with a newly purchased juicer. On the fifth day, something extraordinary happened: her body expelled a tumor about the size of a golf ball. She points to compounds like fisetin, luteolin, and apigenin, found in everyday vegetables such as celery which research has linked to angiogenesis, the process by which tumors grow new blood vessels. “They're right in our food, if we only knew the power of ingesting all these beautiful vegetables and getting an abundance of them through juicing, more than you could eat,” she says. “You probably wouldn't eat an entire bunch of celery, but you could drink it in one glass.”
“On the fifth day, my body expelled a tumor about the size of a golf ball, with blue blood vessels attached. I call it God's scissors, or nature's scissors.”
— Cherie Calbom
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