Thousands of motorists in Fayette and Coweta counties have seen him. A few have taken the time to notice him.
Jim Droskinis saw him dozens of times while driving along Hwy. 34 or Fischer Road in Sharpsburg. He was always walking. Droskinis didn’t know how far or for how long, but one day his curiosity got the best of him and he pulled over to offer a ride.
That was the day he met Larry Foster. He has been fascinated ever since.
“I have lived here over 22 years and served in the military 23 years,” said Droskinis. “But I never met a person as interesting.”
Droskinis had a hunch at that first meeting that he had encountered more than just an old guy walking down the road. As he heard some of Foster’s story his suspicions were confirmed.
Almost 85 years of age, Foster walks about 10 miles every day and has for several years. He is a published author and former businessman who still has a desire to help people as he has been able to do over the years in a most unique way.
Foster wrote a book titled “Toxic Mold – True Cause of Sickness,” based on years of work helping people get well, some of whom he said were near death. Among those people were employees in the early 1970s at a plant in Houston owned by Howard Hughes. That experience led to some of his discoveries that are ultimately outlined in the book, he said.
He still keeps an eye out for what he considers major health problems in the United States that he feels are going undetected or untreated. He talks freely about how autism has become exponentially more common on a per-capita level than it was a generation ago, and how so many American soldiers are coming back from overseas tours and combat duty with brain damage that often leads to suicide.
“So many doctors are not doing anything to heal,” said Foster, who admitted that he is not well-liked in the medical community. “They are just selling medicine.”
His own major health crisis came a number of years ago when he was diagnosed with leukemia. He claims that he has reversed the effects of that disease with a shockingly simple process.
“You can cure cancer for 59 cents,” he said. “A teaspoon of baking soda in the morning, some more at night, and lay off sugar.”
Foster based that treatment on information he received from a doctor in Italy, he said.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., he moved to Coweta County about seven years ago, and he is known around the area as the “walking man.” His daily walking regimen is something else he started as a result of his leukemia diagnosis.
“They [doctors] said he would die, and since he was old there was nothing they could do,” said Paula Wilcox, Foster’s neighbor. “They basically were not going to treat him. He decided on his own that if he changed the pH balance in his body he could beat it. So he started walking and using baking soda.”
Wilcox, who with her husband and children has developed a relationship with Foster over the past three years, saw another example of this treatment with one of her own personal friends, a man diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma.
“It spread to his lungs, his shoulder, his hip – he was pretty much a goner,” said Wilcox. “They operated and did some other things but at that stage you don’t get cured; you just try to lessen the severity of the cancer.”
Wilcox said that she and a friend, on Foster’s instructions, made a large number of baking soda caplets which the man began taking regularly. Over time enough of the cancer effects subsided that he became eligible for an experimental drug.
“Now he is in remission and has no detectable cancer,” she said.
Foster named a few celebrities among those he has helped over the years and hinted at a time when his work reaped financial rewards that allowed him to live very well in Atlanta as well as other parts of the country. His wife and daughter are both deceased, according to Wilcox, who believes he has been taken advantage of at various times but doesn’t care about money as he does helping others.
Foster continues his daily walking regimen despite macular degeneration that has taken nearly all of his sight. “He can see shadows, light and dark,” said Wilcox. “He can see images but not much else.”
Foster’s book is available through Amazon, and he hopes to continue his work even at his own advanced age and health status.
“He is a very loving and caring man who just wants to help people,” said Wilcox. “He just wants people to read his books and to put his knowledge out there.”
