What foods are you eating to reduce recurrence?

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I just read some new (to me) info and had to share. I am reading Eat Right 4 Your Type by Peter D'Adamo and it's been around for awhile but I kind of dismissed it as a new diet gimmick or something, but twice in the last week I had conversation with people who are successfully treating their health holistically and one had cancer but now does not. For those who are not familiar with it, it's a book about which foods are most beneficial to your blood type and mine is A. It turns out that A's should be vegetarians for the most part, with a little fish, chicken, and turkey (and snails lol. Will talk about those in a minute.) We are the ones who should be eating soy, which I have avoided all these years due to the research about thyroid problems and such. Well not everyone has problems with soy and that may be the reason. When I first got my dx I went on the ketogenic diet for awhile and it did help b/c my blood sugar was out of control at that point but then it wasn't helping anymore and the blood type connection was probably the reason. Only type O's will have much benefit from the ketogenic diet according to D'Adamo.

But, here's the most interesting part to those of us on here--type A's and AB's (rare) are much more likely to get cancer, and esp BC, than type O's or B's--like double or triple the chances. His advice, if you do get cancer or have a lot of family history of it, is to avoid meat entirely and concentrate on these foods: soy, peanuts, lentils, wheat germ, and snails. He also mentioned lima beans, which normally do not go on a type A diet, but he said they have an amazing effect on cancer as "the lectin in them will agglutinate and destroy untold numbers of cancer cells." As soon as my fast is over I'm on them lima beans and may even seek out some snails--have never had them, but apparently they're quite powerful and will stop cells from metastasizing. Oatmeal and pineapple are also very good for us but the aforementioned foods are the most powerful cancer fighting foods. I hope this helps someone.

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Alkaline, high-fiber-diet- low in sugar (no added sugar ) and increased physical activity (walking daily to start)Organic- I use raw honey too

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What do I eat? As much organic as possible, and a lot of: Watercress. Red raspberries (I had a pack-a-day habit for years!). Raw almonds, brazil nuts and black walnuts. Juiced beets/carrots/ginger/celery. Olive oil. Flaxseeds. Raw goat cheese. Pasture-raised eggs. Grass-fed butter. Sushi. Brown rice and black rice. Cayenne papper. Apples. Raw whole-grain cereal with raw honey. Whole-grain pasta in moderation. Ate a lot of mushrooms for years. Green and white teas. And (sigh) dark chocolate -- my guilty pleasure!

I pretty strongly believe that watercress is the healthiest food on the planet for BC survivors. Followed closely by organic red raspberries.

Ice cream, no matter how much I try to convince myself it's healthy if I buy the organic almond-milk one, just isn't. Makes me feel awful and has too much processed sugar.

I keep meaning to add broccoli sprouts, which are the best source of sulforaphane, which may kill not only BC cells, but BC stem cells. Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan have both done a lot of research on it. But I had a hard time finding a good source for broccoli sprouts that wasn't expensive. Then I looked into growing them myself, but got worried I'd die of E.coli toxins from growing them wrong! Anyway, I just ran across another study about how sulforaphane is a really potent trigger of apoptosis in BC cells (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22975350 ) , so I may just have to go buy a sulforaphane supplement!

Idid a search on foods that include estrogen and flax seed and flax oil are included.

My MO raised a flag about eating flaxseed. I countered with a bunch of studies that show flaxseed actually slows tumor growth and reduces tumor aggressiveness. I said I was going to continue eating it, and she allowed it (probably because she knows that after I do my research I do what I think is right anyway ;-) ).

Here are some links that informed my decision, showing flaxseed can reduce Ki-67 and therefore tumor growth:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15897583

https://www.oncologynutrition.org/erfc/hot-topics/...

https://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/herb/flaxsee...

http://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20001208/m...

On the other hand, I do avoid soy because it doesn't have the lignans that flaxseed does, and because I don't think the forms of soy widely used in the U.S. are healthy.

Flaxseeds are one of the things I supplement with. I've done tons of research and only found positive studies re: the use of flaxseed and estrogen positive BC.

My OC was honest enough to tell me she just didn't know enough to recommend or to not recommend I take flaxseed, or use progesterone cream or take DIM or pretty much anything else outside the standard of care. Your average OC/MO does not have the time or inclination to research these things, cannot recommend any of them w/out risking his/her job if not in private practice. Mine just said exercise is good, I need to maintain a healthy weight and supplementing with vitamin D was a good thing for me (since my gyno already said I need to do this). She made it very clear that she has not studied the use of anything outside of the drugs normally prescribed to treat cancer and has no special knowledge of such things. I think that is true of most oncologists-they are not experts on diet or supplements and their training is all about prescribing approved drugs to treat cancers and other drugs to treat the side effects of the drugs used to treat cancers. It is their job to know about these drugs, not to know about natural alternatives to these drugs.

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Hi, I just started following this thread. Just want to say that I have heard over and over not to take tumeric. Not sure why. I will do some research.

I am trying to eat really healthy, although I have lost weight and do not want to lose any more. I also started walking 3 miles + a day, which uses calories. But, weight bearing exercise is important. I eat a lot of vegetables, raw, steamed and roasted, salads, fish and chicken and eggs, fruits - fresh or frozen - no canned anything. As much organic as I can find and free range chickens and eggs. Wild caught fish. I hate that it is do much more expensive, but, I guess since I cut out wine and snacks, my money is going to the healthy stuff.

I am going to go back to page one and read everything you women have written. I read several other threads and do not understand why so many women talk about not giving up alcohol and ice cream. I LOVE ice cream, but I have read too much about not eating sugar.

Lots of Paleo websites have good ice cream recipes made with coconut milk and no processed sugars since neither dairy nor processed sugars are allowed on the Paleo diet.