Cancer Journal #53 Oct 26

 I have more to say about what I do for cancer treatment.  Some of this will be repetitious.  But, does no great harm to repeat.  We forget and it's nice to be reminded. 

I have lost 30lbs since my diagnosis.  My meat consumption is scant, red meat especially.  I also am intermittent with intermittent fasting.  The goal is 16 hours, no food, 8 hour window for eating.  I am better than intermittent with it.  I'm most of the time intermittent with my eating.  And they say if you go 13-14 hours, that's OK.  The theory is that your body, your digestive tract needs time when it's not working on digesting food for plant maintenance, so to speak.  Also during times of fasting, the body shucks off senescent cells which cause inflammation which you really don't want.  

I eat oatmeal most every morning and add a bunch of stuff to it.  Green powder and green goopy stuff that my daughter has access to and has passed on to me.  To that, I add some white stuff. some brown stuff. crushed flaxseed, chia seed, nuts and avacado.  Tastes OK.  Has a greyish green hue that the narrow minded might find unappetizing but I'm OK with.  I should say more about the brown stuff.  It is called Amla or Indian (from India) goose berry.  The list of its health benefits is astonishingly long.  Appearing on that list is cancer fighting, probably because it boosts the immunity system.  I do several white powders, one of which is glycine which combined with NAC has a raft of benefits which I really can't remember.  

I have a hefty handful of pills and capsules that I get down in two gulps.  Some are perscription meds, most are supplements that I read about, got enthusiastic about, saw to it we ordered on Amazon and then forgot what I was so enthusiastic about.  I'm sure they are doing me good.  One is a probiotic which I have been advised you should change up regularly.  I do that.  When I finish one bottle, I move on to another kind.  I also take fish oil with DHA.   I mentioned before that there was a study from a French University which found that cancer cells love DHA,  eat it up because they need oil for their metabolism but then do such a poor job of metabolizing that the cancer cells explode.  Very bad case of indigestion--heh, heh, heh.  But then, contradictory studies.  Nothing's simple.  Anyway, I like the idea of a French study and I like the idea of cancer cells exploding due to their greedy consumption of fish oil so I'm ignoring whatever contradicts.

I have also been eating some horseradish.  Does just powerful things in your mouth and really your whole body.  I really get that it might kill cancer.  About kills me.  There was a University of Illinois study finding that it is a very effective cancer fighting agent.  It's not French but I'm still going with it--when I am willing to undergo an extreme sensory stimulation.

I mentioned before that I take high dose Melatonin, 180 mgs per night high dose which is, of course, about 20 times the normal dose.  It's supposed to fight cancer eight ways (can't list for you what the eight ways are except that it is the best anti-oxidant there is, way better than whatever is number two).  I still feel profoundly rested when I wake in the morning but without any groggy fog.  I should say that others have not had such great results.  My wife had nightmares, the lady with whom I do Vitamin C infusion stayed awake the whole night when she tried it.  My niece had unhappy results too.  I'm the only one  I know of for whom it has really worked.  But I don't take it to help me sleep.  I take it to fight cancer eight ways.  The sleep is just a pleasant side effect.

Before I finish, I want to add a note on getting organic food.  Sometimes I get it, sometimes I don't.  There's no particular rational basis for when I do.  I see a list of the dirty dozen vegetables that are full of pesticides/herbicides and tell myself that I really need to get organic for those things.  But then I don't remember what's on the list.  It's one of the things that show that I am only semi-serious in fighting this thing.  I hope semi-serious is good enough.

Got some more that I will do in another blog entry.