Evidence-based pathways to help people recover, rebuild and thrive after cancer and other chronic health conditions.
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Modern medicine is remarkable at fighting disease. But when treatment ends, most people are sent home with very little guidance on what comes next.
Intensive treatment pushes the body to its limits. Strength and energy are depleted. The immune system is weakened. And then — too often — people are left to work out recovery on their own.
Rebecca and Peter lived this. They kept asking the same questions: What should I eat? What actually helps rebuild strength and immunity? What does the evidence really say?
There were fragments of answers. But no clear, trusted, evidence-based pathway.
That is the gap The Rebecca Rebuild Institute exists to close.
My name is Peter Drinkwater. My wife Rebecca passed away from leukaemia and lymphoma in 2023, at the age of 46. Our children were just 13 and 11.
Rebecca went into remission four times. And four times, she relapsed. Each time, we held onto hope. And each time, we saw the same thing: there is almost no support for the part that comes after treatment — the rebuilding.
A doctor once told us that after chemotherapy, your cells are as depleted as if they had "run 200 marathons" — that you need more protein and energy than usual to recover, while your body often struggles to absorb it. No one ever gave us a clear plan for any of it.
Before she passed, Rebecca and I talked many times about the people who would come after her — survivors left to rebuild alone. We said: someone needs to build this properly.
So I am building it in her name.
"Hope is not a feeling. Hope is a plan."
The Rebecca Rebuild Institute is being built around three core programs.
A free, global platform offering clear, evidence-based guidance on rebuilding immunity, strength and wellbeing after treatment — including nutrition, microbiome health, minerals and rebuilding strength. Always free to access, anywhere in the world.
Learn MoreBringing together the best global research, and conducting our own independent reviews, to identify what genuinely supports recovery after intensive treatment — and making it understandable for real people.
Learn MorePersonalised recovery support delivered via telehealth with qualified doctors and practitioners. Free or subsidised access for people facing financial hardship.
Learn MoreMedicine focuses on treatment. Far less attention goes to rebuilding life afterwards — yet that fragile early phase is exactly where the right guidance can change everything.
This is about more than Rebecca. It is about every person trying to regain their strength, every family searching for answers, and every survivor who wants more than just "getting through."
It is about giving people a real chance to rebuild.
Every contribution helps build something that will be free for the people who need it most. Your donation will help fund:
