Months before Ananda Lewis He lost the battle with breast cancer, the old MTV VJ offered a detailed view of why he chose not to have a double mastectomy.
Ananda’s sister, Lakshmi Lewis, announced the news From his death through Facebook on Wednesday, June 11, writing: “It is free and in its heavenly arms.”
Ananda, who was 52, had shared her cancer trip in a Rehearsal for Essence This was published in January.
“Do everything in your power to prevent my story from becoming your,” he advised readers. “If I had known what I know ten years ago, maybe I would not have ended here. I would have been cold, exercising constantly, ensuring -me that my vitamin D levels were good, detoxifying my body monthly and annually, and I slept better. I would have been doing all the things I have been forced to do now, to prevent my body from creating more cancer and eliminating what he has already done.”
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Ananda was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 3 in January 2019.
“I was told that my tumor was growing at a moderate rate, and the full reach of what I was suggested to do to handle it was quite radical,” she wrote Essence. “I was clearly hesitant and they told me that I could take the time I needed to decide.”
“I deepened the research and learned that environmental and lifestyle factors influence 90 percent of cancer,” he continued. “So I stopped drinking alcohol. I stopped consuming sugar. I did a cleaning to get the accumulation of toxins in the body. I began to change the way to manage stress. My goal was to do things that support the capacity of my body to continue to be whole enough to cure, instead of destroying it.”
She added: “I couldn’t find out as it adapted to double mastectomy, complete chemotherapy and, possibly, the radiation they told me to have my life already overwhelmed. What is most important, these methods went against what I thought was suitable for my body.”
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During the summer of 2020, he “felt the tumor growing again” and received treatment at an integrative health installation in Arizona.
“I was puzzled to leave my son,” he wrote, referring to Langston, 14, with whom he welcomed Harry Smiththe brother of Will Smith. “I had never been without him, not even for a weekend. But he was in warrior mode, determined to regain my health for both of them.”
In December, “I had dropped from stage 3 to stage 2. The cancer was outside my lymph nodes and the tumor was significantly reduced.”
Ananda then struggled to pay a subsequent treatment and lost his health insurance. In January 2023, he obtained his insurance and an exploration showed that the tumor had grown “a little bigger”, but “it had not extended anywhere else.”
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However, that October, another scan revealed “that cancer had been wild in my body,” he wrote. “Once I spread to a place outside of the original location, this puts you in Stage 4. I re -called my loved ones and returned to treatment in an integrative installation closer to home, in southern California. In January 2024, I had completed about 12 weeks of therapy and improved a lot.”
That year, Ananda appeared in CNN And he revealed his lament to decide to “keep my tumor and try to work out of the body in a different way … Hopefully I could go back. It’s important for me to admit where I went wrong with this.”
She said Essence From January 2025, she was “in common medicines of care” and “continuing the integrative approach, which includes traditional Chinese medicine and much more. When needed, I will go for a more insulin -enhanced chemo.”
When passing traditional cancer treatment modes, Ananda was apparently wanted To avoid turning into a precautionary tale.
“I’m in Clara? No,” he wrote in his essay. “But I could have finished here, no matter what route I did, because I did not come with the resources I needed to follow the course for all the time. It is what it is for now. I do not want the story to be that, because I did not say that not to the conventional path that initially offered me, which is why I ended up in Stage 4. This is not true.
