Clinical Ecology - How Diet Change Cured Prostate Cancer

by Jenny Smedley - UK Talk Show Host

What's your worst nightmare? For me it was being told that my husband had cancer. The big 'C'. I'd already lost a sister and indirectly, my Mother, to this terrible disease. I sat and shook and trembled, and tried to listen to the options. It was too soon to take it all in. 

Something had made Tony request a PSA test from his GP. PSA stands for Prostate Specific Antigen. It's a substance naturally produced by the prostate gland, but in cases of prostate disorder, more than normal is released into the bloodstream. Tony said he had an instinctual feeling that something was wrong. 

On examination the doctor found that the prostate had a one-sided enlargement, so he did the PSA test. The level was found to be 4.2. In the UK, anything over 4 is a cause for further investigation. Tony was referred to the hospital for a biopsy, and just before Christmas 2001 we sat in the hospital receiving the devastating news that he did indeed have prostate cancer. They said it was a low grade (slow growing) but the treatments on offer were not appealing. 

Radical surgical removal of the prostate gland. The possible and probably side effects are impotence and incontinence. Radio-therapy. The side effects are the same, and neither treatment offered any guarantees. Or do nothing, known as 'wait and see'. Just monitor the PSA and when it gets high enough to be of real concern, follow options 1 or 2. 

Tony was only 52 and neither of us relished the first or second option, and yet doing nothing and watching the PSA gradually rise didn't seem a good idea either. My first reaction was to CUT IT OUT! I think this was natural. I'm not brave and I was terrified. 

But Tony had other ideas. I'd been presenting a chat show on our local TV station and a regular guest had been Gwynne Davies, a Clinical Ecologist. We'd listened to him talk about how he'd successfully treated patients all over the world, from people with headaches and indigestion, through arthritis and also cancers of all kinds. He'd said that ALL diseases and illnesses stemmed from malfunctions of the pancreas, and that if the cause of the disease could be found, then the disease would retreat. 

Dr. Davies used a testing method he had devised and refined over 30 years to test each patient for food sensitivity. Then with an individual diet and supplementation, the patient was able to take their health care into their own hands and make themselves well. 

Tony courageously decided to opt for 'wait and see', but he didn't intend to do nothing. He'd decided to use Clinical Ecology. We rushed to Dr. Davies - me in a panic, and Tony with an idea developing that there was a meaning behind all this apparent disaster. The first thing Gwynne Davies did was to reduce the big C to a small 'c' in my mind. By telling us how the cancer had formed, and his logical and convincing way to defeat it, he took away the panic and fear. 

Tony was tested by Dr Davies, who discovered that he was allergic to cow's milk. This was no surprise because as a child he had loathed milk, but been forced to drink it at school because it was 'good for you'. There is little doubt that had he known years previously that milk and other foodstuffs were harming him and given them up, he would very likely not have developed the cancer. 

What happens with allergies is that after a while your body appears to tolerate the substance, but the body is suffering even though it may appear not to be. The next stage is that the pancreas can't cope anymore and it malfunctions, sending out faulty signals, causing problems somewhere in the body. 

Tony was found to be allergic to several other foods. Dr. Davies put him on a specially tailored diet and after 1 month Tony's PSA level was reduced to 3.6. After another 6 months the PSA was down to 2.6. Six months later it was down to 2.4. At this point the hospital discharged him. 

Dr. Davies had officially retired but Tony wanted others to have the same help he had so he decided to train with him. He'd come to the conclusion that getting the disease was somehow meant - that it was a way of putting him into an ideal position to help other people. It took a year to study physiology and anatomy to the standard required and to train with Dr Davies. Tony set up a clinic in his home in Taunton and now sees his own patients. There are many confusing stories about food allergens. People flounder around in the dark following diets from books, but each person is entirely different and they need a diet specifically tailored to them.  

I couldn't have survived without my dear partner of 33 years. Gwynne Davies didn't just save Tony - he saved me, and now Tony is saving others.