Posted on 06/10/2022 9:37:21 AM PDT by dennisw
Marcos Jarvis went vegan and took up Tai Chi and started having baths in ice like Freeze the Fear star Wim Hof and now he says he has been given the all-clear from terminal liver cancer
A man diagnosed with terminal liver cancer has been given the all-clear after taking inspiration from TV ‘Iceman’ Wim Hof.
Marcos Jarvis, 47, started having ice baths, went vegan and took up Tai Chi to give himself the best possible chance of survival.
And it all worked because Marcos is now back in good health and due to tackle a mega run in South Africa.
The builder was diagnosed with terminal stage four cancer in 2019 after suffering pain while running a marathon.
Marcos needed chemotherapy after doctors found 12 tumours on his liver. But he refused to give in to the disease and, after being inspired by extreme athlete Wim, made drastic changes to his lifestyle.
Dutchman Wim, 63, is famed for his ability to deal with freezing temperatures and his breathing techniques, which have been proven to be beneficial to health.
He is currently giving celebs such as Gabby Logan, Alfie Boe and Tamzin Outhwaite a crash course in his techniques in the BBC One show, Freeze The Fear.
Marcos said: “I read up on cancer treatment and decided to cut alcohol, meat, sugar and stress from my life.
“After learning the Wim Hof method, I started having cold showers, taking daily ice baths and running bare-chested too.
“I messaged Wim to thank him for helping me beat cancer and was amazed when he got back to me.
“He was really pleased I contacted him and really happy with my progress.
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“He asked me to keep him updated – which I have been doing – and I hope to meet him one day.”
Dad-of-one Marcos, from Hailsham, East Sussex, said the new mindset and his family’s support were key to his recovery.
He added: “The last thing I heard from my oncologist was I am cancer-free. There are no tumours.”
Marcos now plans to run 100 miles over five days in South Africa to raise money for the cancer family charity We Only Live Once (Wolo) in October.
ping for your list
I'm a goner.
Me too.
Reminds me of the joke about the doctor who told his patient to give up all these item. The patient asked, “Will this make me live longer?” The doctor said, “No, it will just feel like it.”
He had chemo. That’s what killed the cancer
I’ve always avoided alcohol.
I’m being forced to avoid sugar because of Diabetes.
There’s no way I’m giving up meat.
I’m thinking of trying the cold showers, they are supposed to have good health effects including changing white fat to brown fat.
But ice baths are a step too far.
I’ve been semi-follow Wim for years. Interesting guy.
I have a friend with cancer, he is big on wim hof.
He says he gave him better quality of life, more mobility, stress and pain reduction, general improvement in ability to do things and quality of life.
But he says chemo is what extended his life so far
It is definitely a success story, but I can’t find a tie-in to show something more on the chemo he got, nor of ice baths fixing cancer, although I do know alternate cold/hot showers can stimulate the immune system.
Humans are not vegans. We are omnivores, but that won’t get in the way of a good story, will it???
it will ‘reactivate’ your existing brown fat that has been dormant.there are some studies that show it can”biege” some of your white fat.making it somewhat metabolic like your Brown fat. There are a number of benefits from cold therapy, and as a person who hated cold water with a passion, I do it daily and always will.
I doubt it. He had stage 4 pancreatic cancer that had spread to his liver.
Chemo doesnt really work on that. Maybe it was a combo of chemo and whatever else he was doing.
The ice bath idea is to boost the metabolism so much that the cancer starves to death. Going vegan might help with that, resulting in minor chronic malnutrition.
However, if chemotherapy is ongoing, veganism and taking antioxidants is right out; as a purpose of chemo is to *create* free radicals in the cancer cells, something that antioxidants will neutralize.
this story goes into more detail of what he did
"A man diagnosed with terminal liver cancer" He had liver cancer, this and pancreatic cancer are very tough to defeat. Sure you can get chemo for them, but all this does is extend your life by 3-6-12 months. So I say doing the Wim Hof ice baths, along with the chemo is what cured his liver cancer. Of course you have to check back in a year to see if his liver cancer cure remains intact.
He dropped the sugar. No carbs at all. Stressed the body which entered autophaghy and ate the tumors.
For an analysis of the effectiveness of chemo on cancer, check out this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852245/ The first lines in the abstract: “ For over six decades reductionist approaches to cancer chemotherapies including recent immunotherapy for solid tumors produced outcome failure-rates of 90% (±5) according to governmental agencies and industry.”
Chemo is not the cure being touted by those in the medical community.
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