

Exercise figures prominently to move lymph, circulate blood and oxygenate cells and tissues. I practice allergen avoidance, keep indoor plants around to detoxify the air, and choose the most environmentally-safe household chemicals. I incorporate gentle lymph massage and more vigorous skin rubs as part of my regimen. I have included a small sampling of some of my favorite macrobiotic foods at the bottom of this article. Foods should be organic when available and produce should be locally sourced or at least native to the temperate zone in which you live. The basic macrobiotic diet includes a balance of whole grains (complex carbohydrates) such as brown rice, millet, buckwheat, whole oats, faro, barley etc a full spectrum of round, sweet, root and leafy vegetables beans and soy products nuts and seeds, fermented foods (natural probiotics) such as miso paste and sauerkraut sea vegetables, fruit and some white meat fish. I practice a modified a macrobiotic diet / lifestyle which I have customized and continue to fine-tune to suit my particular situation. I want to urge my fellow CLLers to, throughout their disease process, do whatever is within their power to live a healthier CLL lifestyle. I don’t get infections and have had only one cold in the 3 years since I began my health regimen.

Some of my cholesterol values improved by close to 100%. All traces of diverticulosis and acid reflux disease that I was told I had back in 2016 have miraculously disappeared. My ALC in January 2016 was 10.4 and in July 2018 was 15.1.

My platelets have stabilized and improved over the last 33 months. For whatever the reasons, my trisomy 12, unmutated CLL has been behaving indolently. I want to share what I have done so as to encourage other CLL patients to not look at W&W as a time to watch and wilt, but instead to consider doing whatever you can to watch and win! I believe that a modified macrobiotic health regimen that includes eating very wholesome foods, supplementing and exercise has given me a new lease on my CLL life! I don’t feel I can cure CLL, but I do believe that my integrative approach, which uses the best protocols both Western and Holistic medicine have to offer, gives CLLers many special health options and benefits.

I was not officially diagnosed until January 2016, when I had horrible bronchitis as well as repeated cold sores, sinus and ear infections that simply would not relent. My platelets had been spiraling down since around 2008. I am just shy of 65 years old and have probably had CLL since 2012.
