| Margaret Olszowka was diagnosed with lung cancer | | | | plan. Today, she is doing very well and enjoying her |
| on New Year's Eve, 2002. The prognosis was very | | | | two children and six grandchildren. She wants the |
| grim: her disease had advanced to Stage 4 and was | | | | world to know about the role chronotherapy played |
| inoperable. Doctors at a very well known university | | | | in her survival in the hopes of helping other cancer |
| hospital told her there was nothing they could do for | | | | patients.What is chronotherapy?Chronotherapy takes |
| her. They didn't even offer chemotherapy as an | | | | into account how our body's natural rhythms' impact |
| option; she was told she had months to live. | | | | our ability to process medications. Patterns like |
| However, instead of giving up, she decided she was | | | | sleeping, menstrual cycles, even our physical response |
| going to fight the disease, and ultimately found her | | | | to the changing seasons, are different for everyone. |
| way to cancer specialist, Keith Block, MD, where she | | | | In the old days we called these biorhythms. |
| received chronotherapy as part of her treatment | | | | |