Dr. Annette Bosworth

You don't need to be a doctor to know that she's dying.

Cancer was back again.

And we go to see the oncologist and he says, you need chemotherapy.

And she says, like hell, the last two times you did that to me, I didn't know what a sewing machine was.

And she made all of my clothes until I was the age of 10.

And she's nervous because she has six months to live if we don't do something.

And she asks me a question that lots of patients have asked me this question and I just sometimes lie.

She said, if it was you, what would you do?

That's a really emotional question because there's guidelines, there's rules, here's what you're supposed to do as a doctor.

I want to answer mom.

Mom.

And I saw what chemotherapy did to her.

It was terrible.

She didn't know the grandkids.

It was terrible.

And we just got her back to functional again.

And so I had been reading about the ketogenic diet on brain injuries, and I'd come across a couple of studies on what it can do to a cancer patient, especially an insulin-driven cancer patient like she was.

I said, Mom, do you trust me?

like a fool she said with my whole life we were standing there in the in the waiting room of the hospital one way was to schedule the chemotherapy and the other way was the front door I said mom let's get in the car together I left my car there I drove to my family farm which is a hundred miles away and explained to my mother what a ketone was and her brain wasn't working right so she didn't quite remember

And we went to the house.