Brain Cancer Healed with an Alkaline Lifestyle and Diet

Josie Nunez

After having surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, eight year old Josie Nunez’s brain tumor reappeared for a second time and doctors gave her only weeks to live. Her parents searched the internet for anything that could help their daughter and found Dr Bernardo Majalca, a naturopath, who offered them hope as well as a natural cure for Josie.

Dr Majalca said that Josie wasn’t dying of cancer but was dying from acidosis, and that only by addressing this issue would her body finally be able to heal. He prescribed an alkalizing diet which included drinking 4 freshly made juices per day, as well as various herbs to help detoxify and rebuild her immune system. He describes more about his treatment plans in the video links below.

Josie’s family started each day by measuring her pH before she ate or drank anything with saliva test strips. When they first started checking her pH it was measuring at 5.5 or lower; Dr Majalca says that cancer thrives in a pH at that level, but when your pH reaches 6.8 the cancer will stop growing, anything above that and the cancer begins to die. The goal was to lift Josie’s pH to at least 7.2 and to hold it there for several months until the cancer was completely gone.

Testing the saliva- you can test your pH level of saliva with litmus strips or with a pH meter that can be purchased from health food stores or online, which can give you an accurate measure of what is going on inside of your body. The pH range for saliva is considered to be 5.6 to 7.9 according to the International Journal of Drug Testing. The first test of the day is upon waking before eating or drinking anything, otherwise wait at least two hours after eating or drinking to ensure that the food consumed does not alter test results. Cleanse the mouth by filling with saliva and then swallowing or spitting. Fill the mouth again with saliva and place the test strip on the tongue for 10 seconds. The strip will change colors based on the results. Use the insert from the package to determine pH and monitor 4 times per day to get a clear picture of what is going on inside of your body. You will find that your pH will fluctuate throughout the day. It takes time to raise the pH, sometimes up to 12 weeks to become alkaline.

The diet prescribed for Josie- She could not eat any meat or dairy, as well as anything that was man-made. That included no burgers, soda, candy, fries, sugars, regular pasta, regular bread, or processed foods of any kind.

1st juicing recipe (taken 2 x per day):

1/2 mashed avocado mixed together with 8 oz of fresh carrot or green juice, both are mixed together with a wooden spoon because metal can destroy some of the beneficial enzymes.

2nd juicing recipe (taken 2 x per day)

1 cup of broccoli
1/2 inch slice of fresh pineapple (not canned)
1/2 beet
handful of cilantro
1/4 inch slice of ginger
1/2 inch slice of Daikon radish
1 carrot
1/2 cucumber
5 asparagus spears
run all items through a juicer

Her family reports that she also had access to plenty of fresh air and sunlight everyday, and she drank about 30 ounces of *clean water daily; for an adult that would be about 10 glasses of water per day. *clean water does not contain fluoride or chlorine compounds, so that could be spring water or filtered with reverse osmosis and then re-mineralized.

Unfortunately Dr Bernardo has since passed on. In the links below you will find videos describing Josie’s diagnosis and one of the juicing plans that her family used, as well as Dr Bernardo discussing his treatment plan, and a link to a free E-Book describing the treatments and diet that he would use for his patients.

An introduction to Josie’s diagnosis