Alternative Treatment

I'm not afraid of the sugar in fruits. The enzymes and acids in high water fruits like grapes and watermelon are powerful lymphatic cleansers. My ND recommended that I eat only fruits in the morning on an empty stomach (with probiotics) to aid digestion. I never juice fruits though. I enjoying eating them whole.  

What I've learned is that fruits also help release heavy and dense energy. Because they vibrant high, we vibrant high on a spiritual level when we eat them.  When I gave up eating my 3 pancakes, 2 sausages, 2 eggs and black coffee every morning and started eating lots of fruits instead, I noticed that I started listening to my heart more and got more mental clarity, so my mood is a lot better.    

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Abigail, humans are the only species who drink milk past weaning. And humans are the only species that drink another species milk.  We are not calves.  Whose bright idea was it for us to drink cow's milk? The food pyramid is retarded. I think we were never meant to have dairy products in our diets.  It's no coincidence why so many people are lactose intolerant and allergic to it. What's more, when we buy pasteurized milk at the grocery store, we are supporting an industry that tortures cows and produces a dirty, filthy product. Hippocrates said "all disease begins in the gut." We are only now beginning to realize just how right he was.  Maybe this video will help stifle your craving for dairy.   

The disgusting treatment of (conventional) dairy cows:
WATCH  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzS8p727gvM

When I was in a psychology class years ago I did a paper on food and how it affects your mood. What I found out changed my life - seriously--

I now know that all processed foods makes me feel nervous or depressed or anxious. So I eat them sparingly.  When I cook things from scratch I immediately feel calm and content.  No highs or lows which is much better.

I do fall off the wagon and eat sweets - get the super high feeling and then the horrible low one.

When I did the research I found out many famous people suffered from depression including Winston Churchill, Einstein, etc.  It is felt that their depression was caused by diet.

I am sure modern day diets are even worse due to all the additives we didn't have years ago.

Dogsandjogs, you might enjoy this book which has received very good reviews on Amazon; I've added it to my ever growing list 

Here's an article he wrote: http://macrobiotics.co.uk/articles/foodenergetics.htm

Another version of food energetics is the Eastern one:

Chinese nutritional science or food energetics is the study of electromagnetic patterns of foods and how these vibrations effects the human body. Think of food energetics in terms of frequencies: imagine your body is a radio and each music station is a different food. When the foods you eat are appropriate for your body constitution, the music on the radio is crisp and clear. But when you eat foods that interfere with your body's frequency, the interference disrupts the music and causes static. In other words, your body is unable to function to the best of its ability due to a particular food's frequency disrupting the bodily resonance.

We each have a particular body constitution, much like our personalities, which makes us individual and unique. By eating the correct foods for your constitution, you're feeding your body what it craves and needs to be healthy and balanced. For example, someone with a body constitution that is dry and warm would benefit from eating a diet of foods that brings moisture to the body while cooling it down. If you continue to eat drying or warming foods, then the body would be akin to a car engine over heating. Just as all foods have a particular energy and characteristics, so do each of our bodies

In the west food is described as possessing certain quantities of nutrients (this much protein, that much iron, this much vitamin A etc). Eastern understanding is derived from the observation of human behaviour once a food is taken into the body. Food is assessed according to the nature and quality of its Qi. All foods are seen as having certain behaviours when they enter the human body. Some foods activate our metabolism, some foods slow us down; some foods generate warmth in the body, some generate coolness; some foods are moistening, some drying; some nourish our kidneys, others our liver or heart

http://www.meridianpress.net/articles/energeticsoffood.html

An article by D. Leggett: http://www.balancedwayconsulting.ca/Documents/food-SP.pdf

Very interesting stuff ! 

Dogsandjogs, you're welcome  

Since the 'barbaric' treatments, I've had a total loss of appetite, not me, I love my food !! I don't feel hunger anymore  I was losing a lot of weight a few months back, so I started to force feed so to speak.  I try to eat every few hours, but then, digestion is really laborious and tormenting. Maybe, I should ask to be referred to a gastroenterologist, but then, I'm afraid of what could be found.  I take betaine and digestive enzymes when I think about it.  

Maybe, a juice fast would sort all this out.  Oh God grant me the discipline !

and supposedly depression too Momine.

Good to see all of you.  Stopped in to read.  Our ppower was out 2 days aftee teerrible windstorm, so was gone awhile. 

Am awaiting my biopsy report which dr deems I don't get until the 10th though had biopsy last Thursday.  Cancer or not, just tell me, I don't need the details of ER PR HER2 upfront, just a yes or no will get me through.  Good news, I am either NED or stage 4.  Eitehr the PET CT showed the infection or cancer nodes.  

Better news, found a chiro in aarea who ddeals w  cancer and is not afraid to.  Cell tests, nblood tests that are going to show how my alt tx are managing cancer, far sooner than allopathic tests.  He has a thermogram tooo.  I really like him.  Along w the place I get the UVB and H2O2 and Vit C IVs and all, this will be good for me.  I had a bottle of Protandim sentt to me on autoship that arrived day after punch biopsy in LE arm, against my will they used punch while I was out of it, and they knew how hesitant I was to oeven have needle biopsy.  But I think the protandim got me through w no infection cuz  I was getting worse by Fri morn and inf left though swelling is still there today, but not so bad as could have been I think.

I am using kefir and yogurt I made from raw cow's milk, there wwere trials at Mayo of healing cancer from cow's milk, but it was unpasteurized I believe, and it is not something that people need, except  for healing, colostrum incl.  I get some of that ea month too, but the calves get their fill always, it is a good dairy farm, organic, humane, all woodsy w ponds and nice people there who love the aminals.  Havve to run, sister is on her way for the afternoon, : )

Essa, still praying the biopsy is NED. Hand in there kiddo!

Maud, thanks, another good reason to take it.

By the way, my mother started taking it after she went through chemo 5 years ago. Maybe it is one of the reasons she is cancer-free still (it was ovarian cancer). But she also used to get pneumonia ALL the time, like 2-3 times every winter for ten years. It was a mess. Since she started the probiotics she has not had pneumonia once. It would sort of make sense, since mucuous membranes are involved, but still pretty impressive, I think. 

Thanks for the link & kick in the butt Zuvart, I needed it Lol

Will check what Dr. D'Adamo says about dairy, would really hate to cut it out  Like I said, I get most dairy from sheep and goat, not cows

Different minerals. Although the mineral content of goat's milk and cow's milk is generally similar, goat's milk contains 13 percent more calcium, 25 percent more vitamin B-6, 47 percent more vitamin A, 134 percent more potassium, and three times more niacin. It is also four times higher in copper. Goat's milk also contains 27 percent more of the antioxidant selenium than cow's milk. Cow's milk contains five times as much vitamin B-12 as goat's milk and ten times as much folic acid (12 mcg. in cow's milk versus 1 mcg. for goat's milk per eight ounces with an RDA of 75-100 mcg. for children)

Goats' Milk Is More Beneficial To Health Than Cows' Milk 

Results obtained in the study reveal that ferropenic anaemia and bone demineralisation caused by this pathology have a better recovery with goat milk. Due to the higher bioavailability of iron, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium, the restoration of altered haematological parameters and the better levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH), a hormone that regulates the calcium balance in the organism was found in the rats that consumed this food.

Javier Díaz Castro points out that the inclusion of goat milk with normal or double calcium content in the diet "favours digestive and metabolic utilisation of iron, calcium and phosphorus and their deposit in target organs - parts of the organism to which these minerals are preferably sent - involved in their homeostatic regulation."

According to this researcher, all these conclusions reveal that regular consumption of goat milk - a natural food with highly beneficial nutritional characteristics - "has positive effects on mineral metabolism, recovery from ferropenic anaemia and bone mineralisation in rats. In addition, and unlike observations in cow milk, its calcium enrichment does not interfere in the bioavailability of the minerals studied."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070730100229.htm

http://oklahoma4h.okstate.edu/litol/file/animal/dairy/N-424_web.pdf

Maud,

Great post.  My mother told me I couldn't keep cow's milk down as a baby and soy milk caused massive upset.  Finally she gave me fresh goat's milk and it did the trick.  Goat's milk is much more digestible than cow's milk, probably because humans domesticated sheep and goats long before they domesticated cattle. 

Is goat milk ok then for those of us with er+ then? I've been drinking almond milk, but need to think about bone loss from the AL's I'm on.

I just had a bone scan and my bone density has improved!  The improvement is slight but one of my lumbar vertebrae went from osteoporosis to osteopenia.  Every area of my spine improved.  I think the improvement is due to getting my Vitamin D3 level up above 50ng/ml and to getting my potassium level up to normal after running in the low range since I started on Arimidex.  I have also started taking magnesium since the average calcium pill does not contain sufficient magnesium.

I suggest that anyone with low bone density have their Vitamin D3 and Potassium levels checked.  Low normal is not good enough.  One should be in mid range for both.

Kira - the bone foods are not especially dairy, you need to look to your green stuff mostly.  And Vitamin D3.  Also, I often take a Sea Calcium product, a supplement that does not lodge in joints when you get too much, as most calcium supplements will do, lodging in spine and knees, etc.  I use Nature's Sunshine powder myself, for both me and the skunks. 

Raw dairy, I don't recommend anyone do this, I am acting as a gineau pig for myself, I first was drinking regular organic dairy and yogurt from store and still growing stuff in breasts so  went off it for months and still they grew so I switched to the raw, organic and esp the fermented kefir..... things stopped growing, even went away when I added other supplements.  For my body, this is working.  But I still might get positive tests for cancer from lymph nodes but nothing is growing in breasts anymore.  

btw, did I mention I have an appt w a chiro who deals w people like me?  Am so thrilled to find him.  Thursday.  Perhaps he can get those path reports too, he wants to know as much as I do.  Even if NED, I need him to continue my journey and learn how to stay NED for the rest of my life, this is never over, this I know.   btw, he will be explaining tests that show how our cells are responding to our natural txs too, I will tell more as I know, but he says thisi shows way beforethe allopathic tests reveal that something is amiss. 

I do feel better, but am definitely not thrilled w treatment I received at oncs office, no way, and then the punch biopsy in LE arm, what a mess, he is going to hear about this before I exit for good.

generally speaking, never that I know.  Have heard it is standard in Canada, instead of mammos, is that true, anyone?