Skin Cancer

I want to thank you, folks, for staying here today. And I would like to begin by telling you that I'm going to speak to you a little bit about it personally. My own personal history with skin cancer.

I'm going to touch on a number of areas in the brief time that I have to speak to you. So I'll try to talk to you about some of the nutritional interventions and some of the reasons and causes of skin cancer. From my point of view, one thing I things I will talk to you about is lycopene, a compound from tomatoes. So, please, if you don't like my presentation, please hold the tomatoes and don't throw them until the end of the presentation. Thank you. Having said that. I got into this field when I was in my mid 20s, which was about twenty five. Well, no more than twenty eight years ago, and I'm one of those people who have gone to different extremes and die. I experimented with a lot of things back then, a lot of fasting, raw foods, lot of supplements, dollar herbal detox programs, all these types of things. By the time I was 32 years old, I had a basal cell carcinoma on my eyelid, on my left eyelid, and it's not a good place to get it.

It's not if anyone here has ever had one. They will know that it's unappealing and it's a bit scary because you do have to have it removed. And and having surgery there for me was frightening at the time. I did try an alternative therapy approach for nine months. And I write about this in my book with a doctor in New York City.

And for nine months, I did things like high doses of vitamin A with emulsified vitamin A and lots of enzymes and all kinds of things to no avail. So the alternative in the end became more of a conventional approach. And I was lucky enough to meet up with some folks there who were teaching and Moe's microsurgery, as it's called today.

I had the surgery done on my eye. My biggest fear was that I'd have to have reconstructive surgery done.

This is a surgery that at the time I didn't know. But in 1969, studies were done showing that there was a 100 percent cure rate with basal cell carcinoma on the eyelid conducted by Dr. Frederick Moes, the developer of Moes microsurgery. I was very fortunate because this type of procedure, you have to often maybe haven't done more than once.

So the as a excised the lesion, they they look they look under a