CHANGING POISON INTO MEDICINE..."PLEASE LET ME ACCEPT THE THINGS "I" CAN NOT CHANGE"...TOMORROW I WILL HAVE TO

you are in my prayers !

Get well soon Mom!

Irma,

Do you take a multi-vitamin/mineral supplement? I started taking them to help with my circulatory and nerve pain issues. They have also helped with my mental state. I also take coenzyme Q10 (which is depleted with age and cholesterol medications), extra vitamin E, extra calcium/magnesium/zinc.

I have a very good book by Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum. He is a holistic physician, prescribes medications when called for but treats nutritional deficiencies as a first line of defense. The name of the book is Real Cause Real Cure, and in the chapter on cancer is this note:

To Reduce the Side Effects of Chemotherapy, Try Antioxidents

In a review of 33 rigorous studies evaluating the effects of taking antioxidants with chemotherapy, involving 2,446 people, the supplements were found to reduce the toxic effects of the drugs. Five of the studies found that those taking the antioxidants were able to complete more doses of chemotherapy (which is sometimes stopped because of its toxicity). Antioxidants used in the studies included glutathione, melatonin, vitamin A, N-acetylcysteine,vitamin E, selenium, acetyl-L-carnitine, coenzyme Q10, and ellagic acid.

"This review provides the first systematically reviewed evidence that antioxidant supplementation during chemotherapy hold potential for reducing dose-limiting toxicities", concluded the authors in the International Journal of Cancer.

The fact that antioxidants help with chemotherapy may be just the opposite of what you've heard from your oncologist: that they harm the power of chemotherapy (and radiation) to kill cancer, because those therapies work by oxidizing cancer cells. That's simply not true. Those taking the nutritional support do better. If I have a cancer patient with an oncologist who voices this concern, I compromise: I stop the supplements for 1 week before and 1 week after each round of chemotherapy.

(If you're taking acetyl-L-carnitine to help prevent or reduce chemotherapy- or radiation-induced nerve pain - a strategy I recommend in Nerve Pain (Neuropathy) on page 373 - continue taking it, even during chemotherapy.)

All will be fine, but I am praying it will be gone. We need you. Love you Irma.

THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING THERE FOR ME. (S-M-I-L-E)

AND, NOT TO WORRY AS I HAVE THE BEST MEDICAL TEAM GOING...

Thank you all for yourprayers and your caring for me...Lov Ya A-L-L...and I reallymean that, even you Harry. (smile)

@Steve, I will check with Barns and Nobles tomorrow on the book you suggested.Thanks so much...

when I speak of Mother Nature I am speaking about HOlistic matters...even my NDB pactice is Holistic.(lol)

My daughter send me vitamin and minerals that they give their cancer patients.

@My beautiful almost perfect daughter...as I will have my CT scan in a fre days, in a week I should be able to let allof you know what has happened...spread, remine the same or is gone. (smile)

AT ANY RATE, ALL WILL BE FINE...