Happy Pear

'If what they said was true, then every doctor would tell every parent to feed their children, mushrooms and soy and go vegan, but we're not'

“I realised how little I knew about what it was like to live with cancer and how little I did to help my patients,” she explains. “When my cancer came back my Mum said ‘if someone told me a treatment in Turkey the cost £50,000 would cure you, I’d give them the money.’ And I understood, because I wanted a solution like that too.” I want patients to challenge doctors and say is this really the best thing for me? We don't really know what is going on in the whole world of social media and influencers. “I was concerned that The Happy Pear took down their video. Together, they wrote a book - The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer: How to Feel Empowered and Take Control – to answer all the unanswered questions they had while they were going through treatment. And you want to do anything you can to stop your cancer coming back. However, there is no evidence to say that mushrooms will reduce your risk or eating soy will reduce your risk of getting cancer.” There is the fear of recurrence, you see someone in the press dying every day, so it makes sense that if someone tells you that taking a supplement will cure you, you’re likely to look into it.” “I was slim, I was a triathlete. “When I looked at the video, I thought wow, a lot of this is wrong. Your diet is not going to give you cancer.”