A MAN who was given six months to live with an inoperable form of cancer claims he is alive today thanks to the low-carb keto diet.
Pablo Kelly rejected traditional forms of treatment in favour of a meat and fat heavy diet after he was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2014.
The dad, from Plymouth, Hants., first noticed something was wrong when he began suffering from headaches.
Then, after initially trying to ignore the pain, Pablo suffering a seizure at work before being rushed to hospital.
After medical staff revealed his tragic diagnosis, he was advised to start treating his cancer with radiology as soon as possible.
However, amid preparations that involved shaving his head and beard, he says he realised that he couldn’t go through with it.
“So I got the mask moulded to my face, they got me into the room where they were going to measure me to the machine for the radiotherapy and in the pit of my stomach I felt a very negative impulse,” he told the Plymouth Live.
“I just thought I can’t do this and decided I needed to speak to the oncologist.”
At the time, he was told that he was expected to live another 12 to 13 months but without medical intervention he would die a lot sooner.
But after doing his own research, he decided to turn traditional treatment down and take an alternative approach, saying he wasn’t impressed by the side effects of chemo including hair loss and infertility.
He told doctors the options they had proposed to him “wasn’t good enough”.
The dad said: “If I’m going to die anyway, which you’re telling me is pretty much the outcome anyway, I’m going to choose something else.
“So I declined it there and then.
“I just went with my gut instinct and that’s kept me going ever since.”
Rejecting conventional fertility treatments including freezing his sperm, Pablo was able to fulfil his ambition and conceive children naturally.
Pablo’s eldest has just started nursery and his youngest will turn one this summer.
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In 2017, the dad of two claimed that his diet has worked wonders after doctors determined that his tumour was operable.
He said: “Essentially from my understanding of it, over the course from 2014 being on the diet helped keep the tumour at bay.
“It changed shape and made it more accessible for surgeons.”
Pablo underwent two painstaking craniotomies in which he was required to stay awake.
It was conducted this way to avoid causing damage to his brain during the removal of his tumour.
He maintains it was a “very scary and weird experience”.
Pablo is now making in recovery after temporarily losing the use of his left arm and has admitted that his “brain isn’t what it used to be”.
However, despite continuing to live with terminal illness he has continued to promote his alternative methods online.
He added: “For anyone who is going through the same as me, just going through a diagnosis the best thing you can do is ask about quality of life and quantity of life.
“You should ask about how it will affect you and your family, and how you can achieve a normal way of living with this horrible, horrible disease.”
