Immune system and nutrition, off to a conference this weekend to focus on these areas
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/immunity.html
The key message is nutrition is key to your immune system.
It is important to note that PEM usually occurs in combination with deficiencies in essential micronutrients, especially vitamin A, vitamin B6, folate, vitamin E, zinc, iron, copper, and selenium (21).
PEM is protein energy malnutriction. I ask myself is my diet delivering the nutrients needed above for a healthy immune system ? Just some food for thought.
The conference is pretty heavy duty anticancer and wellbeing.
http://www.gawler.org/speakers/
I am mainly attending because my biochemstry guru colorectal cancer expert mentor said
Professor Avni Sali MBBS PhD FRACS FACS FACNEM is a font of knowledge.
Director National Institute of Integrative Medicine; former Head of Graduate School of Integrative Medicine Swinburne University & University of Melbourne Dept of Surgery Heidelberg Hospital; President International Council of Integrative Medicine; Member of the Scientific Board of the European Congress for Integrative Medicine; Board Member The Gawler Foundation. His expertise is in the area of disease, cancer & difficult clinical problems. He is coauthor of A Guide to Evidence-based Integrative and Complementary Medicine.
Is anyone here interested in these posts, if you are then please reply. I know its my research and not yours, i guess from the lack of replies generally not that much interest.
Its clear to me that the general CAM/ALT approaches have to be tailor made for my crc.
that is i believe i can obtained extra benefits that may help me livestrong and long.
hugs,
pete
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Pete! I'm interested (do IBuckwirth said:Hey Pete,
Are you taking aspirin?
Article about CRC and Aspirin
And:
Review of NSAIDs and CRC
Pete! I'm interested (do I count?)
I save all of your links so I can refer to them later. Even though I am in the thick of the battle and get discouraged, a part of me can't help but dream about that first day of being NED, and off of chemo....then, I will begin bringing out all of the ammunition that I've been storing up. Many thanks to you.0 -
thanks janie anf blakeBuckwirth said:Hey Pete,
Are you taking aspirin?
Article about CRC and Aspirin
And:
Review of NSAIDs and CRC
Good question, I have read, for and against. Still
Researching.
Inclined at present do do aspirin if I am cox2.
My Onc mentioned it 6months ago, but we never got it sorted.
Just asked her now by message.
Am aware its not recommended with tumeric.
I just, rearranged quarterly scans, and blood test Monday Afteroon.
go after conference.
I have a conflict between, diet and health and more drugs,
I will get the best answers I can get from conference delegates and then surgeon and Onc, and naturopath and hospitals senior nutritionist who I am having lunch with.
My fingers are crossed for a good scan Monday afternoon. Shopped around for
Lowest radiation dose based on machine, radiologist said its about 1100 chest rays equivalent.
Radiation dose is a function of procedure not the machine as explained at this center.
Hugs,
Pete0 -
All the things you dopete43lost_at_sea said:thanks janie anf blake
Good question, I have read, for and against. Still
Researching.
Inclined at present do do aspirin if I am cox2.
My Onc mentioned it 6months ago, but we never got it sorted.
Just asked her now by message.
Am aware its not recommended with tumeric.
I just, rearranged quarterly scans, and blood test Monday Afteroon.
go after conference.
I have a conflict between, diet and health and more drugs,
I will get the best answers I can get from conference delegates and then surgeon and Onc, and naturopath and hospitals senior nutritionist who I am having lunch with.
My fingers are crossed for a good scan Monday afternoon. Shopped around for
Lowest radiation dose based on machine, radiologist said its about 1100 chest rays equivalent.
Radiation dose is a function of procedure not the machine as explained at this center.
Hugs,
Pete
and all the money you spend, and you would not pursue something that shows results like this:Among participants with COX-2-positive tumors, regular aspirin use after diagnosis was associated with a 61 percent lower risk of colorectal cancer-specific death...
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not advised by onc, i left drugs to her responsibilityBuckwirth said:All the things you do
and all the money you spend, and you would not pursue something that shows results like this:Among participants with COX-2-positive tumors, regular aspirin use after diagnosis was associated with a 61 percent lower risk of colorectal cancer-specific death...
Have asked onc again, it seems worthwhile revisiting this.
Don't know my cox2 status!
I am curious now though, do you get this info automatically or do you have to pay for the testing and insist.0 -
checked the aspirin at the conferencepete43lost_at_sea said:not advised by onc, i left drugs to her responsibility
Have asked onc again, it seems worthwhile revisiting this.
Don't know my cox2 status!
I am curious now though, do you get this info automatically or do you have to pay for the testing and insist.
the consesus was to skip aspirin in favour of tumeric,
so that is what i have done and will continue to do until i can confirm my cox2 status and get onto an pharmacological oncologist.
hugs,
pete0 -
checked the aspirin at the conferencepete43lost_at_sea said:not advised by onc, i left drugs to her responsibility
Have asked onc again, it seems worthwhile revisiting this.
Don't know my cox2 status!
I am curious now though, do you get this info automatically or do you have to pay for the testing and insist.
duplicate0
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