What is your approach/"protocol"?

Hi Crunchy,

 Here is what im doing (altho im a bit slack sometimes, then i freak out and go serious again)..

 General diet: vegetables particularly dark green ones(raw and steamed); fruit - less than vegies; nuts, seeds, beans, chickpeas, lentils, soy/tofu, wholegrains (i do eat white rice but i shudnt.  i need to stop), corn.  I drink green tea, herbals, vegie juice, soy milk, and sometimes fruit juice and water.  I also drink wheatgrass juice.  sometimes i will have honey or maple syrup but very sparingly - like less than monthly or hardly at all.  i eat eggs occasionally; and i still eat fish from time to time altho i am trying to stop and plan to stop.

 No red meat, dairy, alcohol (altho i slip up somteims), caffeine (no black tea or coffee), no sugar (altho i do slip up slightly occasionally, which i need to stop.), no processed or fast foods (altho i eat some aisian vegetarian dishes without msg - malasian usually).

My daily diet:

green salad for breakfast. and lunch too somtimes.  (full of good things): like: almond or other nuts; i try to eat almonds and brazil nuts every day; green leafy lettuce or spinach - dark green; onion, garlic chopped; raw brocolli; seeds (pepita etc); cucumber; tomatoes; beans or chickpeas; herbs; olive or flaxseed or apricot kernel oil and lime juice.  and avocado chopped. and sometimes sprouts as well/alfalfa.  (i usually have some extra nuts - almonds usually) and dried fruit or fruit on the side of my plate wiht this salad.

i eat homemade hummus.  (chickpeas, lime juice, tahini, 4 x garlic, olive oil)  on corn crackers usually.

i eat a lot of corn crackers cuz i cant eat wheat.  i also eat rice as the grain.

i try to eat beans, chickpeas, lentils (dahl is good recipe , indian).

i try to drink vegie juice as often as possible (carrot, apple incl seeds, cucumber, celery, ginger, lime juice)  also i buy boost vegie juices.

i eat vegetarian sushi rolls quite often for the seaweed which is anti cancer.

i drink a lot of green tea.

i eat an apricot kernel every now and then.

i have been on essiac tea a while ago.

i eat cats claw tablets every so often to boost my immunity.

i also eat Q 10 for my heart.

i eat chinese herbs daily.

i try to get enuf vitamin c and i eat a magnesium and b vit supplement or have mg baths.

im sposed to drink wheatgrass juice twice a day but often lately i forget.  but i intend to start up again.

i do eat tofu with some meals.

i have been on colloidal silver for immune system and zeolite to get the probable mercury overload out of my system.  but ive stopped now.

sometimes i take lugol's solution if im feeling a bit panicky (like two drops to four drops), well i used to.  now i just eat sushi regularly or wakame seaweed.

i have regular acupuncture to increase my energy levels and improve my mood.

i do qi gong whenever im getting stressed to relax me. altho i shud do it more than i do, becuz its really good.

i meditate sometimes, to decrease stress.

i shud be exercising more than i am probably.  but i dont overdo it if im feeling tired.  i only do what i feel my post chemo body can handle.

i just want to say how good the chinese herbs are for me.  before i had them i felt CRAP.  if i eat them like im sposed to, i have good energy and i can just feel this 'hit' of energy, and that they make me feel better.   I wud strongly recommend anyone recovering from chemo to eat chinese herbs and see their chinese doctor for diet advice.  it helped me recover from chemo so much and to feel so much more positive mentally.  i owe my chinese doctor a lot, i think.  he also makes you smile for no reason as part of exercises, and this really helps improve the mood and is good for the body too.

I also take CoQ10, and have added Vitamin D-3, fish oil, turmeric.

I use only Crystal Stick deodorant, avoid bottled water, stopped constantly painting my nails.

Take shorter showers (inhale less chemicals), stopped using any dryer sheets (puts chemicals all over you), microwave less, wear Bare Minerals makeup. Rarely use hairspray.

I won't eat flax or soy, since they have shown to have the estrogen effect, and the last thing I need is more estrogen. Cut back on diet sodas. Trying to drink more green tea.  Don't eat sugar. Have a Brita filter on my tap.

I'm trying to find a deodorant as well that works in the Texa humid heat!  Any suggestions?

I just heard the other day of somebody using coconut oil for deodorant! I tried it yesterday and it seems to have been effective, but of course, I live in Minnesota where there isn't much cause for me to sweat! Coconut oil does have antibacterial properties, so it kind of makes sense. The crystal stick deodorants do work pretty well too. Even my husband uses one now as he finds it more effective than regular deodorant. 

I use coconut oil for both my hands and face. You'd think it would leave an oily residue, but it actually absorbs into your skin really quickly. Works great! Yes, you do smell a little like coconuts, but I like the smell! 

Has anyone been told which supplements should be combined with others?
I take many of the supplements some of you are taking so I would like to ask how do you combine your supplements with your food?

For example, I take Bentonite, which has to be taken at least 2 hours before or after meals or supplements.

I also take IP6 & Inositol, which has to be taken 45 minutes before or after meals or supplements.

I take Alpha Lipoic Acid, which should be taken 20 minutes before of after meals or other supplements but taking Vitiman E with this is ok along with the Maitake.

I also take Black Cumin gel caps and have been told not to take them with Curcumin so I take it an hour or so before or after taking Curcumin.

I am planning to make a spread sheet to keep up with it. Lol

I take Pharma Grade Omega 3 and Pharma Grade liquid CoQ10 (which I love).
Progesterone cream (was told I will use it for the rest of my life).

My list (subject to change) consists of:

IP6

Bentonite

Progesterone Cream

Alpha Lipoic acid

Vit D drops

E Complex Mixed Tocopherols

I3C

Black Cumin Oil

Multi Vitamin

Curcumin

Genistein

Pharma Omega 3

Pharma CoQ10

Maitake

Changed my diet to raw organic everything, lots of juicing,  no read meat, very little chicken or fish because I am blood type A+. Exercise and walk. No white flour, sugar and only use sea salt, sparingly along with eating raw organic nuts. Dumped all perfumes, lotions and cosmetics that are not organic and chemical free. If I cant eat it, I don't put it on my skin. 

Here are a couple of links that might be helpul.

 http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/splash.php?URI=/index.php

 https://anitagrant.com/index.php 

Loving the changes I made!

I just heard the most amazing news about my friend who was diagnosed 2 1/2 years ago.

She had a lumpectomy, but no chemo or rads.

Instead she cashed out her 401(k) went to the Hippocrates Institute to learn a new way of life, a crazy sexy cancer-free life. She threw away all her pots and pans and learned to adopt a macrobiotic diet and new lifestyle.

She lost 80 lbs.

She was just diagnosed with a recurrence. 3 tumors in the same breast. 

Results of scans for metastasis are pending.

Results of the thousands of dollars spent at Hippocrates: zero.

There is no magic cure. If you want to beat cancer, you do it with conventional methods. Running away from this truth will probably cost her her life. It was so unnecessary.

Make your own choices, but do it informed, not deluded.

Twa, your post is annoying. I have yet to meet one woman with a BC dx who is deluded especially on this forum. If hearing the words "you have Cancer" or anything similar doesn't jolt a person into hyper reality I don't know what will. Your poor friend to have a friend like you in the midst of such tragic circumstances.  

Hopefully you are compassionate and respectful enough to limit your opinion to discussion boards rather than subject your friend to it.  

Carole. 

I have been hesitant to post mine, because some of it is so very different from most here, but then I realized that sharing all ends of the spectrum is probably a good thing.

Cynical to the core, I tend approach everything with mistrust - that includes conventional medicine,  most diet recommendations and even the alternative stuff. 

For conventional treatment, I am try to avoid overtreating or undertreating.  (Tough to do because most docs want an aggressive approach right out of the gate. The surgeon said mx - but I just wanted the cancer out - and  my healthy tissue left alone. Because of my nodes, I was afraid to reject chemo all together, but  I did fight the onc to get chemo without steriods.  I've mentioned in other posts that I'm doing rads, but again, only to sites where they found the cancer - no preventative areas.)  

My lifestyle choices are longstanding and have not changed -  We've been trying to eliminate as much petrochemical "stuff' as we could since 1994 - the more intimate the product, and the more we spend exposed to it,  the more priority we give to making sure it's non-toxic, natural, and  time tested as safe.

We try to spend as much time in the country as possible, and have been adjusting  our careers over the years to this end. Now we own our land and try to grow as much of our own food as we can - this means most dietary "advice" is contrary to our reality - I'll explain: 

People in industrial societies have amazing access and abundance when it comes to food. Virtually no time or place in history have other humans experienced this. Food was seasonal and local - so there were times of shortage and times of glut.  They ate what was available because the only other choice was to starve.   

Current dietary advisors seem to forget those facts. The food pyramid, for example,  takes for granted that all  foodstuff will be available everywhere, all the year round, for us to  pick and choose  a complete balance on a daily basis.   Yet that is not the way humans ate - and that is not the diet to which are bodies adapted. 

Living close to the land has me thinking that there is something very wrong with the concepts they are promoting.  I have no proof whatsoever, but I'm betting my life that it is wrong to expect to eat x number of  fruit and vegetable servings in the dead of winter.  I know some items will keep in long term storage, but I also know the quality suffers when food is not fresh. 

I can accept the fact that there are times when meat and dairy might be the mainstays of my diet, and times when most of it will come from the garden.  

I believe the body adapted over time to thrive on what was available, so the idea that the food my ancestors ate, from a climate most like theirs, strikes me as likely the best for me. I reject the idea of a  one size fits all nutritional model. 

We grow our food organically, and if we need to add missing nutrients, we try to put it directly into the soil, so the plants that grow on that soil will convert those nutrients to be easily absorbed by humans and animals.  

Being outdoors and growing our food means we get lots of fresh air and exercise. I always loved the advice of Dr. Weil who said, "If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly." I have a tape of his that reminds us how our blue, carbon dioxide saturated blood cells travel to the lungs, and leave freshened and red, to carry oxygen and nutrients to every cell in our bodies.  Such an important process we rarely think about.  I tend to be a shallow breather, so concentrating on good breathing and getting lots of fresh air is very important to me.  

I prefer to get most of my vits, minerals, or herbs directly from food or real sources. Since BC dx,  I have been flirting with various supplements for the first time in my life.  I fear  the supplements will create an imbalance, so for now I have settled on a good quality multi.

I  take D3 upon recommendation of Doc - because I tested low.  I'm also taking an antioxidant  blend and milk thistle  to help me through chemo and rads - but I plan to quit both of these when tx is finished.

 I know that despite all I am doing, I can't get away from chemicals and toxins,  but I do as much as I can to lessen my exposure.  I guess that's number one point of my "protocol".  

Hi Deni, 

When I was first Dx the first question my NatDoc asked was "What is your blood type?" When I told him I was A+ he said something like "Yes, that is why". I was so intent on listening to him that I did not ask about the "why" When I got home I looked up cancer and blood type and came across the book "Eat Right For Your Type" by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo. I went on Ebay and found the book for $1.00 and a few $'s shipping so I bought it. He makes some very good points but some of the foods I love like cashews, shrimp, lobster and crab are no no's for me. 

Is anyone else using this diet or parts of it? 

Here is a link to his site: http://www.dadamo.com/

Warm regards, 

Carole 

Twa said, "Make your own choices, but do it informed, not deluded."

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And how deluded are you, to think this was a good place to post that particular opinion?  

That is a very interesting article, Pill. It makes perfect sense. I think this carries over in every aspect of our lives.

Pill: I read your post and link with great interest. Thank you for the information.