I'm Sharan West. Co-founder and co-owner of Australian Pumpkin Seed Company. The original idea for starting this business was to provide top quality pumpkin seed oil for men with prostate enlargement and/or cancer. Since the very beginning in 2002 we have started getting an increase in men finding benefits from taking our pumpkin seed oil.
My own interest in health and nutrition has lead me into lots of reading on both subjects as well as cancer. From reading Professor Brian Peskins book The Hidden Story of Cancer I gained, what I still believe, to be correct knowledge on the primary cause of cancer (a 100% result rate is hard to dispute) and how to prevent it. One of the main requirements is to get sufficient parent essential fatty acids in your diet. I thought that since I was taking our pumpkin seed oil (source of parent Omega 6) and not eating lots of lollies or deep fried foods, I don’t smoke or drink alcohol excessively, I do exercise, eat wholemeal bread, generally eat healthy and try to cut out as many preservatives as possible that I would never be one of the people to get cancer. How wrong was I. Now I feel somewhat cheated as there are so many people out there who disregard and abuse their bodies or simply don’t care about it that don’t ever get cancer or anything to the same degree.
I got it wrong. Yes the pumpkin seed oil has definitely helped with what I have been through. I just had a comment this morning from a nurse taking a blood sample that I have kept my veins in very good condition - I think this is from the oil and how it keeps cells and therefore veins flexible.
Taking pumpkin seed oil is not the only thing you need to prevent cancer. Professor Peskins book explains other things needed too. Some of which I know I was lacking but with my “minor” symptoms I never thought they would result in cancer in such a big fashion. Stress increases the need for nutrients and as you can imagine starting a new industry and business isn’t easy, so my body required more that just eating 80% healthy. It needed added support of which I obviously wasn’t giving it.
I’m 32 and now have had a chunk of my bowel removed from bowel cancer.
This blog is for me to express my thoughts and ideas and to get some thing off my chest as they occur as reducing stress in my life is a big priority at the moment. I’m putting a lot of faith in Professor Peskins work and findings and I want to share it with anyone who is interested. If he is right, which I believe and want to prove, then I will be around for a long time to come to do all the things in life that I want to do including setting up a foundation to prove the results and give everyone the information they need to help themselves prevent their bodies from getting cancer.
I'm sharing what's happening and how I feel with Cancer unexpectedly showing up in my body and entering my life in the most personal way - to me rather than all the other people I've spoken to with first for second hand experiences where it has touched their lives also. Writing things down helps me get some of it out and sort my thoughts and feelings and I hope also that by sharing my experience it will help someone else too.
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I've removed the other blog posts telling my story from here as I am now using it as a source of fund raising for future cancer prevention research. If you would like to read my story and also get a lot more detail than originally posted in this blog, please click here.
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