My name is Nuria, I am 46 years old (August 2024) and I live in La Orotava (Tenerife). In October 2022 I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer with metastasis to the peritoneum.

I started to feel some discomfort in the upper abdomen (right side). As the days went by, this discomfort became an increasingly intense pain that did not subside with any painkiller. I was like this for about five days, until I decided to go to a medical center. There they examined me and told me that I had a lot of inflammation in the area. At that time, they tried to do an ultrasound but they did not have an appointment available for that day and they scheduled me for the next one. However, they prescribed me medication for the pain and the doctor who treated me told me that if I did not feel relief, I should go to the hospital via emergency services. And so it happened. The pain did not go away, it became more and more intense, to the point that it became unbearable.

Before I was diagnosed, I took medication to relieve the pain. Once I was diagnosed, and until all the tests were done to determine the extent of the disease, I was prescribed stronger medication because the pain was unbearable.

When the diagnosis was confirmed, they explained to me that the idea was to perform a radical hysterectomy, but before doing so, I had to undergo several chemotherapy sessions because the tumor, due to its location, could not be operated on. The plan was for six chemotherapy sessions. Halfway through, they would perform a CT scan and assess whether it had shrunk enough to allow surgery, or on the contrary, to do them all and see if the operation could finally be performed after them.

With this diagnosis, it was impossible for fear and uncertainty to take hold of me. It was then that a friend put me in touch with a person who has been fundamental to me in my recovery and healing process. I am convinced that without her, my story would not have been written the same way. This person spoke to me about the importance of approaching my illness from three basic aspects: nutrition, physical exercise and mind control. Together, we focused a lot on nutrition, what I should eat to strengthen my system, especially in view of the chemotherapy.

I did everything exactly as she told me: daily smoothies, I cut out all forms of sugar, I ate fruit and vegetables every day, etc. She told me a phrase that was very much ingrained in me: "sugar is the food of cancer cells, so don't feed them." That's what I did, and with each test I had, my tumor values ​​were dropping incredibly. After my third chemo, they repeated the CT scan and, curiously, the implants that were in the peritoneum had completely disappeared and the tumor in my ovaries had shrunk from about 5 to 2,6 cm.

With these results, they decided to operate, but since there was a bit of a delay in the availability of an operating room, they decided to administer the fourth dose of chemo so as not to break the dynamic. A month after that fourth chemo, I had surgery and the surgeon spoke to me the day after the operation and told me that there was only a small piece of tumor left in the right ovary, that the medical team was amazed at how effectively the chemo had acted on my body. However, I knew that it had not been just the chemo. I am absolutely convinced that nutrition played a fundamental role in the whole process. Without a doubt, it helped everything go much faster.

During the whole process, I walked about 5 km a day, except for the 4 days after, when it was impossible for me to do anything at all. The salt baths I took after the chemo helped me a lot.

I received frequent psychological help from the professionals at the hospital's psychiatric unit. We also had several family therapies at home, with a psychologist specialising in this field.

I received two weekly classes of mystical therapy.

On a physical level, I noticed a noticeable improvement. Little by little I was getting better and feeling stronger to carry out my daily activities. On a psychological level, I learned to control my emotions a little more and to value much more the small details that go completely unnoticed in our daily lives.

Today I continue to take great care of my diet, I eat lots of vegetables and fruit, I drink smoothies to strengthen my defenses and I also take the oncological treatment that I will finish in May 2025, but I know, and I feel that way, that my preventive treatment is diet and exercise.

Through my experience, I want to emphasize the importance of having good eating habits. It is necessary to understand food not from the perspective of what I like or dislike, but from what our body needs to be healthy.

Let us prioritize what is natural over what is manipulated and chemical.

To the extent possible, let us find time to care for and pamper our body and mind. In short, let us become aware that health is the most precious asset we have, and therefore we must take care of it.