Werner Pilniok is a cancer survivor. Shortly after Pilniok, now 71, was diagnosed with a malignant lung tumor in 1999, he went against his doctor's advice and embarked upon an aggressive nutritional supplement regimen to combat the cancer. Pilniok attributes several nutrients, among them vitamin C and the amino acids L-lysine and L-proline, to his success. After seven months of this self-prescribed therapy, Pilniok's tumor vanished.
His recovery is a compelling example of the curative powers of vitamins and other essential nutrients. And Pilniok's story is becoming more commonplace as natural therapies take their place in the mainstream. Scientific papers that offer a solid basis for the use of natural therapies in cancer treatment are being published with regularity. That consumers have confidence in the efficacy of alternative and natural therapies is evidenced by the fact that they spent an estimated $34.4 billion on these in 1997.
But more important, clinical research has confirmed that natural therapies for cancer can and do work.
