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Fiore Films screens acclaimed alternative
health videos at Douglas College

By Ashley Whillans, Arts &
Entertainment Editor

ndrew Fiore, of Fiore Films,
recently screened his latest
work, Becoming Sound:

The Healing Journey and Metabolic
Therapy: The Ludde Protocol at the
David Lam Campus, sharing his
valuable knowledge about alternative
health practices with the students and
faculty of Douglas College.

Starting as far back as his college
days, Fiore has “pushed the envelope”
to make work he believes in. As
a graduate of the Ryerson Film &
Television Program in Toronto, Ontario,
he was once suspended for taking out
life-insurance under his school’s name
to complete a somewhat dangerous
independent project. Today, as a
filmmaker and alternative health activist,
Fiore continues to fight for what he
believes in, no matter the cost involved.

Growing up in an Italian family
who valued homemade cooking and
fresh ingredients, Fiore’s childhood
became the foundation from which the
film-maker would expand his interests
in natural remedies, and the power of
healthy eating.

After conducting personal research
from 1995 to 1996, while his mom was
suffering from cancer, Fiore stumbled
on Taheebo, a tea made out of tree
bark, which is used to revitalize cells
in patients with cancer. Fiore thought
people should know about this, so he
quickly began putting together his first
film, Becoming Sound: The Healing
Journey. The film took over two years
to make, and focuses on Taheebo as
an alternative method of healing, in
addition to exploring other methods and
natural cures.

Upon meeting metabolic
practitioner Frank Ludde, Fiore was
commissioned to make Metabolic
Therapy: The Ludde Protocol. Frank
Ludde, a metabolic practitioner, claimed
to be able to cure any illness in twelve
weeks using an innovative intramuscular
therapy technique. While documenting
Ludde’s work, Fiore spent an entire
summer following the lives of some
of Ludde’s terminally ill patients,
who were, at the time, being kept in a
mansion on the British Properties in
Vancouver.

Metabolic Therapy: The Ludde
Protocol is primarily centered on
Ludde’s methods of curing toxaemia,
the state your body reaches when it has

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too many toxins. According to Fiore,
Ludde’s techniques aimed at detoxifying
people’s systems in order to cure their
illnesses and centered on a simple
concept.

“If you smoke too much, drink too
much, or put too many chemicals into
your body at a fast rate, your body will
no longer be able to eliminate toxins
and you will get sick. The type of illness
you get [will] depend on your genetic
pre-disposition, if you are run down
you might get a cold, but chances are
if you are a smoker and genetically
predisposed to get cancer, you will get
cancer,” Ludde said.

However, before Ludde could
complete his research, he was arrested
by the RCMP, and died mysteriously.
Fiore was then forced to terminate
filming and moved back to Toronto to
edit the film. A couple of months before
the release of Metabolic Therapy: The
Ludde Protocol, Fiore himself was
arrested, and his footage confiscated.
Eventually the charges were dropped
and he was released with most of his
tapes intact.

Although the film became a sort
of infomercial for Ludde’s clinic,
which was short lived after Ludde died,
Fiore’s film centers on the importance
of considering natural alternatives to
chemotherapy.

How did Fiore’s journey lead him
to Douglas College? Well, thanks to an
ex-professor in the Faculty of Nursing
at Douglas College, Fiore was invited
not only to screen his films at the
college, but was also commissioned
to make a new documentary entitled
Red Fox: Recreation as Medicine. This
documentary is for Vancouver Coastal
Health’s “Red Fox Program,” which
is handing out 34,000 recreational
passports to Aboriginal students
province wide, who can then redeem
passport stamps for outdoor and
recreational activities.

While he has retired from making
alternative health videos, Fiore
continues to promote his films; sharing
his videos with students, colleges and
universities across the country in hopes
of inspiring medical practitioners and
patients to consider natural alternatives
to chemotherapy, and spread the word
about nature-based cures.

 

 

 

 

 

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