New Consciousness Review Fall 2015 | Page 30

HEALTH OBITUARY AND REVIEW Goodbye to a Medical Hero For over 30 years, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez had been researching and treating his patients with a remarkably effective nutritional-enzyme approach for many types of cancer, as well as other illnesses such as Lyme, allergies, autoimmune disorders and chronic fatigue. Sadly, his passing was recently announced on his website, www.dr-gonzalez.com: “It is with great sadness that the office of Nicholas J. Gonzalez, M.D. relays news of his untimely death on Tuesday, July 21, 2015. The cause of death was cardiac related, it appears, as he suddenly collapsed and was unable to be revived. Dr. Gonzalez was in excellent health otherwise so his passing is quite unexpected. Dr. Gonzalez leaves a legacy of faith, healing, and genuine love for people and the pursuit of medicine.” Over the course of 10 years, he participated in controlled clinical trials to get FDA approval for this approach to the treatment of pancreatic cancer, generally considered incurable. For reasons documented in his book, What Went Wrong: The Truth Behind the Clinical Trial of the Enzyme Treatment of Cancer, he was thwarted at every turn and did not get FDA approval, although he continued to treat and cure(!) cancer patients in his private practice with great success. (See our review of the book below.) Although we hate to go down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theory, there does appear to be an unusually high early mortality rate among researchers whose work threatens the profits of Big Pharma or Big Energy. We salute Dr. Gonzalez, who joins 30 | NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW the ranks of the heroic researchers who have put the advancement and greater good of humanity ahead of their own professional advancement and safety. Our condolences go out to his family, colleagues and patients. One can only hope that in this information age, free access to life-saving information will make the practice of killing the messenger obsolete.