Hi my name is Malissa Stawicki and this is my Healing Story. 

Before I get into how I got sick and what I did to get well, I would first like to give a little background about my life and overall health. Growing up in the US, I became a vegetarian at the age of 16. I never really liked any kind of meat even as a young child.

Growing up in the states, I ate the typical Standard American Diet (SAD). Processed foods, sugars, saturated fats…not eating a healthy, vegetarian type of lifestyle. I didn’t know better, and it wasn’t until I moved to France after graduating from college with the Bachelor of Fine Arts, that I learned how to eat healthy. I was a nanny for an American family, and I had to shop and cook for them. I went to the farmers market and the grocery store that had a vegetable market in it, and I was taught how to make salads and cook from scratch.  

It wasn’t until I met Gaetan, that I learned how to really eat healthy. No processed food, everything homemade and a lot of raw vegetables, salads, etc. Gaetan was a French physical trainer and a nutritionist whom I married. He trained celebrities, fashion designers such as Givenchy, and worked at high-end resorts such as Triano Palace at Versailles, France. I trained with him daily and was in the best shape of my life. I continued eating healthy and working out even after an amicable divorce 7 years later.  It’s what kept me balanced and capable of doing so much work with my successful art/fashion publishing company.

After my magazines were acquired by a wealthy lady in London, I moved into an apartment in the 10em arrondissement Paris. My apartment was nice, but the building had problems. There was a broken window across the way from me where pigeons had been living, black mold in the bathroom and kitchen, and there was a roach problem. I didn’t realize at the time, that pigeons can have a yeast-like fungus that grows in old, dried pigeon droppings and can cause cryptococcosis. Cryptococcosis can cause a severe lung or brain infection.

{Cryptococcus neoformans: A yeast-like fungus that grows in old, dried pigeon droppings and can cause cryptococcosis, a severe lung or brain infection, particularly in people with weakened immune systems.}

Not long after moving into the apartment, I started experiencing night sweats so bad that I would wake up drenched. I’d have to change pajamas and move to the other side of the bed that was dry. As this continued, I started to develop some issues in my lungs. It felt like I had tiny holes in my lungs and my body wasn’t getting all the air that I was breathing in. I went to the emergency room in Paris several times, but was sent home…as they said there was nothing wrong with me. I went to doctors in Paris, London (where my company was based), and still no doctors helped me.

I was applying for an executive MBA program at the time and was writing essays for the application process. I wondered if I was doing the right thing and worried about my health. I wondered, did I have cancer…, what was wrong with me?

I got accepted into the Executive MBA program and for the following two years my condition worsened. On my last module at NYU Stern University, I went to a doctor there and they ran some tests, but again didn’t find anything wrong with me. Right before I left, I read something about Candida. I had enough time to order a candida cleanse and a book about Candida, which I got just before I had to leave to go back to France. Within a day of taking the cleanse I started feeling better. I read the Candida book and learned about the candida diet.  I ate healthy already, so it wasn’t extremely difficult for me to not eat sugar (fruit), no processed carbs, no alcohol, no dairy, or wine. I did eventually have to give up coffee, which was a bit more difficult.  

The candida cleanse product worked great, but I had to stay on it or other antifungal herbs, otherwise it (the infection) would flair up. So long as I followed a strict anti-fungal diet, I felt ok. However, being a vegetarian and having a very limited diet, excluding most fruit, I became very skinny. After one year of this, I was a size zero and very boney, to the point that I looked sickly.

Sadly, around this time, my father told me he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He started traditional chemo treatment. By the following summer, I travelled to spend time with him at our lake house in TN. I helped by taking him to weekly chemo treatments, (his second round). I got there at the beginning of the summer of 2008 and had antifungal herbs with me, as well as antifungal medication for my lung issues, but I had no idea they would be able to help my father with his lung infection, ‘cancer’.

Antifungal medications can work, while taking them, but often the problem starts up again after you stop taking the medication.  It wasn’t until the end of that summer that I learned about two books which changed my life: The Germ that Causes Cancer and Cancer is a Fungus.  I learned that cancer could also be cured with nutrition, detoxification strategies, an antifungal diet and herbs.

During that time, I had sent an email to Dr. Simoncini in Italy and asked if he treated lung cancer and whether he might be able to help my father, and he replied back with a yes. I felt with this newfound knowledge that I was handed the Holy Grail, but sadly too late to help my father.  Had I discovered this information in the beginning of the summer (rather than the end), I truly believe it could’ve saved my father’s life and he might still be here today. My dad had recently retired; he was young and not ready to leave this world. He would’ve done the diet and anything to have lived longer. My father passed away the following week, and my life changed forever.

I went back to Arizona to be with my mom and my stepdad, and they allowed me to live with them while I worked on my health. I continued following a strict diet and taking antifungal herbs that kept the problem at bay, but my health symptoms weren’t fully going away. It wasn’t until I saw an advertisement about how hydrogen peroxide IV’s can help with Candida, that I actually began to really heal.

I made an appointment and went in to see Dr Joseph, MD, MD(H) in Scottsdale, Arizona and his wife Linda at their small clinic full of people. I did a consultation, and he told me that the treatment recommended was 11 Hydrogen Peroxide IV treatments, one every week and not to even start if I couldn’t do all 11 treatments.

While I was sitting in the IV chair for an hour and a half each week, I met many patients and heard so many incredible stories. I suggested to the doctor that I record these stories and put them on a YouTube channel for him. He agreed as long as the patients gave permission and that’s how my research in holistic health started.

I learned so much from his patients and directly from Dr. Joseph and his wife.  Dr Joseph was an MD, a medical doctor, who years before, decided he wanted to practice holistic medicine to really help heal his patients. A group of doctors in the 1980s formed a new licensure in AZ, called Homeopathic and Integrated Medicine Examiners  for doctors with this license that allowed an MD or a DO to get a second license with some training in holistic medicine and homeopathy.  They had to take a homeopathic exam and had taken classes to receive a second license. This MD(H) license allowed them to practice holistic medicine safely under this Licensure.

What most people don’t realize is that a medical doctor (MD), has to practice within their scope of practice, which is prescribing medication’s, cutting and invasive procedures. They do not learn about nutrition in school and certainly do not learn much about detoxification.  Over the next two years, I studied Dr. Max Gerson’s research (curing cancer and other illnesses with juicing and coffee enemas), and went to many conventions, such as: David Wolfe’s Longevity Know, Dr. Rashid Buttar,’s Advanced Medicine Conferences. I even did marketing for some internationally known doctors such as Dr. Gary Gordon and Dr. Hal Huggins, just to name a few. Most recently I completed the Hippocrates Wellness program in Florida, with over 390 hours of nutrition, detox and healing.

Today I run our holistic clinic Natural Medicine & Detox with my husband Doc.  I also try to find time to do educational events and work on my nonprofit, SPOONLIVE.org

Some things I did to get well:

Clean vegetarian diet (certified organic)

Herbs

Hydrogen Peroxide IV’s

Chelation IV’s

Juicing

Colon hydrotherapy

Coffee enemas

Infrared Sauna’s

Homeopathy

Acupuncture

Ozone therapy

Wheatgrass shots

Removal of 4-5 Silver amalgam fillings

Malissa Stawicki

Holistic Health Advocate

Business Development Director

480-297-5085 cell

Natural Medicine and Detox

www.NaturalMedicineAndDetox.com

2701 N. 7th Street

Phoenix, AZ 85006

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