When I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2010, I hit the internet for alternative therapies as the thought of chemo and radiotherapy was pretty scary, but most of what I saw looked like snake oil and quackery designed to part me with large amounts of my hard earned!!

However, I came across an article on a respected website suggesting that the substance carotene found in carrots, inhibited the growth of bowel tumours, although it stressed that there was no scientific evidence for this and what was out there was purely anecdotal. So I thought what the hell, went and bought a juicer and for the next 18 months drank a pint of freshly squeezed carrot juice every day!

Now whether it made a difference to my cancer outcome or not, well who knows....

But the ironic thing is that despite the cancer and the treatments, by and large I felt extremely well and full of beans!! Better than ever in fact!!

I stopped after having major bowel surgery which left my 'functions' in a pretty fragile state and I think the high fibre content was a bit too much at the time!!

Things have settled down somewhat now, so I've been looking at this with interest!

Thanks Guffer!!
