Healing Beyond the Medical System
- Brainz Magazine
- Sep 22
- 9 min read
Updated: Sep 23
Dee Mani is a holistic healing advocate and founder of My Way CBD, who transformed her life after overcoming an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis using natural remedies. She is an author, entrepreneur, and speaker dedicated to empowering others through the healing potential of cannabis and holistic wellness practices.
Healing Beyond the Medical System shares the raw, courageous journey of defying conventional cancer treatment and choosing natural healing instead. From facing a terminal prognosis to becoming “illegally alive,” this story exposes the limits of mainstream medicine, the suppressed power of cannabis, and the deeper truth that real healing begins with sovereignty, courage, and reclaiming ownership of your health.
Illegally alive
“I’d rather be illegally alive than legally dead.”
That’s not just a punchy quote, it’s my reality. And apart from birthing my two beautiful children, it’s by far my proudest achievement. Yes, as the line suggests, I am illegally alive!
In 2017, I faced grade 3 Triple Negative breast cancer, which apparently (if you listen to textbooks) is the most aggressive breast cancer type. The medical system handed me the usual roadmap. Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation (aka cut, poison, burn), and a cocktail of pharmaceuticals for life to handle the chemo damage, of course. But everything in my body screamed no. Instead, I turned to natural methods and cannabis oil, yes, oil from the very plant demonized, banned, and censored for decades. And if you haven’t yet connected the dots between the cancer, pharmaceutical, and government agendas, it’s time to look closer. The evidence is hiding in plain sight, but fear and distraction have kept most people from seeing it.
Within months of diagnosis, I was cancer-free despite my oncologist's warning that I’d be dead within a year if I refused their so-called “gold standard” protocol. I did have surgery, but if I’m honest, I was bullied into it. They don’t rush you into the operating theatre to speed up healing. They rush because they don’t want you to stop and think.
They don’t want you questioning, exploring alternatives, or realizing you have options. By keeping your mind locked on the fear of death, they guarantee compliance.
It’s a system that’s been running on the same script for decades. You only need to look at recent global events to see how fear can be weaponised, push people far enough into panic, and compliance follows every time.
Surgery doesn’t remove cancer, it removes a tumour. And a tumour isn’t the root cause, it’s just the symptom your body threw up as a warning sign. You can cut it out, poison it out, burn it out, but unless you change the internal environment that allowed it to grow in the first place, it will return. The same pattern shows up across all chronic illnesses. Suppress the symptom, but ignore the soil it grew from. That’s why patients get trapped in the language of remission or management. It’s a clever way of saying, “We haven’t fixed the root, we’ve just silenced the symptom, for now.”
By medical standards, I should have been another statistic. But, by my own standards, I became living proof that healing is possible when you step outside the system’s rules.
This isn’t just about cannabis. It’s about what happens when you stop outsourcing your health to a machine and a conveyor belt that thrives on your sickness. Real healing often begins where the rulebook ends.
The system isn’t built for healing
Mainstream healthcare is brilliant at emergency interventions, stitching wounds, setting bones, and saving lives in a crisis. But when it comes to chronic illness, cancer, autoimmune disease, mental health, and metabolic disorders, the system isn’t designed to heal. It’s designed to manage. And manage at a cost of guess what? Yes, your health! Sounds ironic, doesn’t it?
Their language says it all, chronic care, patient management, treatment plans, palliative, and end-of-life. Doctors rarely talk about healing or reversal. Why? Because a healed patient is a lost customer. And that’s exactly what we are, customers, not patients!
The medical-pharmaceutical machine isn’t healthcare, it’s an industry. Cancer treatments alone are a multi-billion-dollar business, projected to hit $375 billion by 2030. And yet, with all that money, all that so-called “research,” and decades of public donations to cancer charities. Where's the cure? It doesn’t exist, because there can’t be one. We all produce cancerous cells every single day, that’s biology. The difference between health and dis-ease is whether your body has the right environment to kill them off and self-heal. But you’re not supposed to know that. If you did, the whole cancer business plan, because that’s exactly what it is would collapse.
The problem isn’t that doctors don’t care. Many do. The problem is that they’re trained in a system funded and influenced by pharmaceutical giants. Most medical schools offer fewer than 20 hours of nutrition education in total. The endocannabinoid system, your body’s master regulator, isn’t even taught in standard medical curricula, despite thousands of studies on its role in immunity, mood, and inflammation. This intelligent system, which controls every other system within your body, was taken out of the medical books in the early 1930s, around the same time that cannabis was criminalized. See the pattern there? Oh, and if you really want to understand, just take a look at the 1939 Cancer Act, which is still in place to this day. This act was put in place by the U.K. government, but other nations globally followed suit. If that doesn’t scream corruption, I don’t know what does!
So, if you’re waiting for the medical system to teach your doctor how to really heal you? Don’t hold your breath.
Experience over expertise
We live in an era where “expertise” trumps experience. If a white coat says it, it must be true. If a patient says it, it’s anecdotal and dangerous. But the problem is that most so-called experts have never experienced the illnesses they treat, and they certainly don’t understand what it feels like to sit in the patient’s chair, facing fear, pain, or the possibility of death, which is dished out so nonchalantly.
Take cancer. Oncologists are experts in protocols and following the rulebook. But most have never lived through the brutality of chemotherapy, or even the sheer terror of a diagnosis, whereas I have. And when I share my story of healing with cannabis oil, I’m told it’s “not scientific.” But what’s more scientific than a real human body responding to real medicine? I wrote 12 Questions to Ask your Oncologist, check out number 12, it may just shock you!
The system has authority and expertise. But those of us who have walked the fire we have experience. And that lived knowledge can’t be dismissed as a coincidence.
Cannabis: A case study in censorship
Cannabis is the perfect example of how the medical system suppresses healing. For decades, it’s been classified as a “drug of abuse.” Meanwhile, evidence shows cannabinoids reduce tumour growth, protect the brain, regulate immunity, and calm trauma responses.
Cannabis is a plant that has been purposely put on this earth to heal! If you're religious, across all faiths (Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Taoist, Zoroastrian, and Islamic), cannabis shows up in scripture as a sacred, healing, divine plant used for both physical ailments and spiritual connection.
And, while we’re at it, let’s not forget. The U.S. government itself filed Patent 6,630,507 in 2003, claiming cannabinoids are “antioxidants and neuroprotectants” useful in treating inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases. Translation? They knew it worked. They just didn’t want you to.
Why the ban? Simply, you can’t patent a plant. You can’t own something that grows freely in the soil or even in your back garden. But you can synthetically alter it, slap a patent on it, and sell it back to the public via the medical industry at a thousand times the price, and usually laced with toxic fillers. And what do those fillers often include? Carcinogens. Oh, the irony writes itself.
That’s why pharma now churns out products like Epidiolex, legal only because it's patented. Yet the raw plant, the oil, the pure extracts that actually heal without toxicity? Still demonized and stigmatized, and the likes of you and I, should never be able to have access and heal ourselves.
Cannabis isn’t illegal because it doesn’t work. It’s illegal because it works too well.
I know this because I’ve seen the other side. I trained for five years in the pharmaceutical industry before walking away with my dignity intact. Why? Because I learned very quickly that every single drug is designed to do one thing, mask symptoms. And in the process, it creates a cascade of new health problems that keep you locked in the system. That wasn’t why I wanted to be there in the first place.
Truthfully, I was young, naïve, and chasing the salary I knew would come once qualified. But deep down, it never sat right with me, especially when I discovered that every prescription drug is petroleum-based. Yes as in petrol, gasoline, diesel. Think about it, if your doctor told you to drink a shot of petrol every day (sometimes three times a day), you’d call him insane. Yet here we are, a pill-popping society with zero awareness of what’s actually being consumed.
Healing is sovereignty
Stepping outside the system is stepping into sovereignty. It’s a word that gets tossed around, but sovereignty means self-ownership. It’s the realization that your body is yours, not the property of a government, a corporation, or an insurance company.
Healing isn’t passive. It’s not sitting around waiting for the next prescription or hoping a surgeon can cut the problem away. Healing is radical ownership:
What you put into your mouth.
What you expose your body to.
How you deal with stress and trauma.
Whether you choose natural medicine or hand over your power to a system built on profit.
That truth makes people uncomfortable, because sovereignty comes with accountability. If your health is in your hands, you can’t just blame the doctor, the system, or your genes. Accountability brings freedom. And freedom is where true healing begins. This is what we need to learn to embrace.
The cost of obedience
So, what really happens when you stay obedient? You follow the rules, you take the drugs, you silence that gut instinct that’s screaming at you. For some, it means decades of “management” but never resolution. For others, it means side effects that end up worse than the actual illness itself.
Take cancer. Chemotherapy is paraded as the “standard of care,” yet many regimens only extend life by a handful of months while leaving the immune system shattered.
Radiotherapy is marketed as precision treatment, but in reality, it’s a poison that never truly leaves the body. It lingers, slowly damaging organs over time. That’s why so many patients who “beat cancer” with radiation later pass away from heart failure, kidney collapse, or liver damage, but the dots are rarely connected. And this isn’t unique to cancer, you see the same in autoimmune and metabolic diseases, where patients are congratulated for “managing” their condition, while the drugs quietly chip away at their long-term health.
But healing was never meant to be about “beating” anything. True healing is gentle, compassionate, and humane. It’s about nurturing not just the body, but the mind and soul too. In a previous Brainz article, I laid this out clearly, all sickness has roots in trauma, and the majority of illnesses stem from unresolved issues that reach all the way back to childhood. Until those wounds are addressed, the body keeps the score.
I’ve spoken with countless people who regret following the script. They sadly admit in a quiet tone. “I wish I’d looked into natural medicine earlier. I wish I’d trusted my gut.”
Obedience might feel safe in the short term. But in the long run, it can and often is fatal.
Courage
Stepping outside the system isn’t for the faint-hearted. You’ll be judged, ridiculed, and even threatened. Family might call you careless and reckless. Doctors might dismiss you.
The media might even label you a conspiracy theorist. But courage is the price of sovereignty. True healing requires it. And the moment you stop seeking approval and start seeking truth, you reclaim not only your health, but your power!
Remember. The people who changed history in science, in medicine, in society were never the obedient ones.
Illegally alive
I’m not anti-doctor. I’m not anti-medicine. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow with limbs hanging off, I want trauma surgeons, not turmeric. But I am anti-dependency, anti-censorship, and anti-profit-before-people.
I am alive today because I trusted my body over the medical system. I am alive because I chose to be illegally alive rather than legally dead.
So ask yourself, When the system hands you a prescription or a diagnosis, will you obey or will you write your own destiny?
I wrote a book about my cancer journey, not because I wanted to be an author, but because I needed closure. The funny thing is that the book ended up changing everything. It became an Amazon best-seller and opened the door for me to help thousands of people around the world find their own healing paths. In it, I expose the real reasons cancer is everywhere, the corruption of the medical industry, the truth about cannabis, and the exact steps I took to still be standing here today. It’s raw and personal, and if you want the unfiltered truth, you can grab a copy on my CBD site.
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Dee Mani, Cannabis & Natural Health Consultant
Dee Mani is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, and holistic healing advocate who defied the odds by overcoming aggressive breast cancer through natural remedies, including cannabis. As the founder of My Way CBD, she is passionate about empowering others to explore alternative healing methods. Dee's journey from illness to wellness inspires her writing, where she shares insights on natural health, wellness, and the transformative power of nature. Follow her work to discover how to harness holistic practices for a healthier, more balanced life.
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