For Informed People Using Alternative Treatments

Thanks for checking Juneping! I got my copy from the library and returned it already. You rock! I am under 50 so I think that is why I ignored it.  btw - It is more than acceptable to blame your evil boss!  i have had 1 or 2 of these myself.  hahaha

Yeah, I have that book, too! It also says if you DO take melatonin, 1 mg or less is best. I am taking 1 mg, even though I am just under 50 (49). I'm not that concerned that it is a hormone. Vitamin D3 is a hormone, too, and I am taking 4,000 IU of that a day.

i don't know who brought it up but i am glad it's brought up. 

to me, state of mind is powerful (stress), it provides a condition but that can't be measured...that's why ppl brush it off. unlike exercise and diet, we can quantify them but not state of mind.  but the more i read about it the more i am convinced it plays a role. the body itself is a small ecosystem and state of mind can affect how it functions. afterall, everything is related and no one single factor can cause cancer.

i am not going to lie, i wish there're more studies on how we got cancer at the first place. instead of us guessing over it on the internet.

link:

http://www.canceractive.com/cancer-active-page-lin...

Mind over Matter

Taking charge of one´s own life is vitally important to some people
and doctors ignore this all too frequently when they belittle (yes, they
do we receive the letters!) their patients and their exercise or diet
regimes, the hands-on-healer, the Indian head massage, the switch to
soya, the findings on the Internet, and even the desire for a second
opinion.

The mind is an important weapon in the fight to beat cancer. And
there is scientific evidence on the role of food here. To give one
example, people who are depressed get more cancers, and cancer patients
often suffer depression it is linked to a lowered blood oxygen level.
But we know certain foods can help significantly in this area. In 2005
and 2006 there were a number of US studies that showed fish oils were
more effective at dealing with depression than even the best clinically
approved drugs and they don´t have the side effects. By 2012 there had
been a number of studies showing that stress management techniques increased survival times ´significantly´; and these started with diet and natural compounds like fish oils, going on to include yoga, meditation and counseling.

Diet is most definitely a factor in someone´s mental well-being and their survival from cancer.

Great article on Causes of Cancer...

http://w3.newsmax.com/newsletters/blaylock/issues/causes/blaylock_causes_117.pdf

Jojo!  Carrageenan?  Wah!  I use coconut and almond milk every day b/c I went off dairy.  God, is nothing safe in this crazy world anymore?  I thought it was some kind of seaweed.  

piper - if you decide to make your own almond milk, make sure you get the almonds non GMO, not pasteurized...get them organic and raw. i was doing some research and making my own almond milk before going on raw milk, here are two links that sell raw nuts. i got my raw almonds from the brewer farms 5 pound min. the first site sell in small quantity.

http://shop.livingnutz.com/category.sc?categoryId=...

http://www.almondsbrewerfarms.com/products.html

juneping - Before, I would take only 3 mg of Melatonin plus a Benadryl at bedtime. Didn't do a thing for my insomnia, but it became a habit. I upped it to 15 mg after reading about Melatonin possibly fighting breast cancer. Still nothing. I've always had chronic insomnia.  

My former oncologist said that the 5 hours of sleep (6 on a good night) was not enough.  I talked to my psychiatrist about Trazodone because my sister had success with it. 50 mg worked wonders. I keep up the 15 mg of Melatonin for the breast cancer.

I don't know how a higher dosage would be on someone with a normal sleep pattern.  Maybe slowly titrate up and see?

@Jojo - thank you for the post from Dr Blaylock - what an interesting read. I absolutely loved his closing comments that I will repost here for everyone's benefit;  

"Those of us who care deeply about individuals' health are in a constant struggel with the academics who insist on pristine, absolute proof before they will accept that any treatment is clinically useful. But while they bicker over minutia, people are dying. The suffering can't wait decades for purists to finally be convinced of the value of lifesaving treatments."      Well stated Dr B, well stated!

@GeeWhiz - I loved reading your update and look forward to more news once you have it. I am seriously wanting to do Hyperthermia as the German Clinics have been having tremendous results over the past few years (as I've read). May I be so nosey as to ask costs?

@JunePing - I saw all of those movies (Gerson, Pink Ribbons, Stress) as well as Hungry For Change and FoodMatters and Knives over Forks LOL the whole gamut - I was possessed!  Very enlightening don't you think?  I think it was the foundation that helped me understand the urgent need to change my ways.

GlobalGirly:  (Are you by any chance a traveller?  We need to talk.)  About the benadryl--I used to take that every night b/c it was reliable and cheap but then I read somewhere that it inhibits acetylcholine, which is the neurotransmitter you need for memories and that kind of freaked me out.  Supposedly the effect is temporary but at the same time I read that I realized that my mother had been taking Tylenol PM (same active ing) for years and was losing her mental faculties quickly.  The absolute best all-time sleep remedy I've discovered is this:  About an hour before bed, take your Ca and Mg supplements and get into bed.  No TV or computer screens--just a book or knitting or whatever you like that doesn't get you too stimulated.  Then take your melatonin and totally darken the bedroom.  Do not turn on any lights if you have to go to the bathroom--I make sure I have TP before I go to bed so I don't have to be looking for it.  This totally works for me and the addition of the Ca and Mg was huge for me.  My biggest challenge is getting to bed on time--I'd stay up till midnight if I could get away with it and often I thought I was getting away with it. . . but I feel so much better these days!

Scandophile, I also liked those closing comments from Dr. Blaylock--sometimes you just gotta jump right in before they stop arguing.  

hjpz - thanks for the link. 

i also felt hot from time to time before BC...but before tamxo i could sleep thru the night only one bathroom trip, especially after drinking dr Wong's herbs, i was feeling great until last week....sigh...i am hating every minute of this. i think i'll consult a naturopath after i go back to work making full income.

Hello I am a new B. So I am looking and asking   I just got done asking about B17 and the seed :-). Did you try that r know anyone ? 

Thank you 

Blessing 

For those of you trying to avoid carageenan, I ran across a guide to organic foods with, and without carageenan put out by the Cornucopia Institute (I use their guide for humanely raised eggs and milk, also)

http://www.cornucopia.org/shopping-guide-to-avoidi...

I am taking DIM and Fish Oil - I will check to see if Cod Liver is in it. 

pipers_dream - Yes ma'am I am. I've traveled to many countries, but the list of countries I want to visit is much longer.

Thanks for the tips on sleep & the magnesium & calcium suggestion. How many mg do you take of each? I will try that. 

Srh242 - Yes. Lots when I was younger. Sometimes my eczema would become infected, and I'd need antibiotics to clear it up.

Geewhiz, I feel the same way. I also think that we shouldn't overlook how much the cancer itself messes with us - meaning that the stress and fatigue I felt in the years before DX were likely caused by the cancer, rather than the other way around.