Juicer question

Welcome to the juicing club.
Welcome to the juicing club. I have a Champion, but the Omega is great. I'm going to post some recipes in a minute. I use apples a lot, but I bet melons would make a great substitute. In fact melon sounds great. I don't follow a lot of recipes. I buy what looks good and is organic. However, this approach has led to some disappointment and can be a bit expensive; so I'm keeping better track of what I use and how it tastes.
I drank 1 or 2 glasses of juice a day while doing chemo. My onc said not to drink a lot of juice because it might work against the chemo. I'm not sure if I believe that any more, but i can't really complain about my dr. So far the treatment plan is really working. Right now I'm on a chemo break preparing for surgery. I'm drinking as much as I can. Start easy. It might take a little time for your system to get used to the concentrated juice.
During the bad treatment times I couldn't drink much juice, but I think the juice helped me recover. I know it's boosting my immune system right now. As of last week I can see a path to NED. Surgery, more chemo, surgery - NED. Juicing to boost my immune system will be a part of that path. And once I'm there, I'll always assume that there are small amounts of cancer cells in my body, but this time I'll give my immune system everything it needs to fight the band of bastards on its own.

And also, swamp water makes me happy, and cancer hates happiness.

Roger

Crow71 said:

Welcome to the juicing club.
Welcome to the juicing club. I have a Champion, but the Omega is great. I'm going to post some recipes in a minute. I use apples a lot, but I bet melons would make a great substitute. In fact melon sounds great. I don't follow a lot of recipes. I buy what looks good and is organic. However, this approach has led to some disappointment and can be a bit expensive; so I'm keeping better track of what I use and how it tastes.
I drank 1 or 2 glasses of juice a day while doing chemo. My onc said not to drink a lot of juice because it might work against the chemo. I'm not sure if I believe that any more, but i can't really complain about my dr. So far the treatment plan is really working. Right now I'm on a chemo break preparing for surgery. I'm drinking as much as I can. Start easy. It might take a little time for your system to get used to the concentrated juice.
During the bad treatment times I couldn't drink much juice, but I think the juice helped me recover. I know it's boosting my immune system right now. As of last week I can see a path to NED. Surgery, more chemo, surgery - NED. Juicing to boost my immune system will be a part of that path. And once I'm there, I'll always assume that there are small amounts of cancer cells in my body, but this time I'll give my immune system everything it needs to fight the band of bastards on its own.

And also, swamp water makes me happy, and cancer hates happiness.

Roger

Chew The Damn Juice
There is a rule with melon:

Eat melon alone or leave it alone.

Re chewing juice: digestion starts in the mouth with your saliva and you want to call ahead to the stomach letting it know that food's on the way. Getting the saliva going will phone that info ahead so that the digestive juices in the stomach will have your table ready.

GREEN = LIFE

The greener the (swamp) juice the better, but start off slowly and build up your green juice endurance. I only mix apples or lemons with veggies--otherwise n'er the twain shall meet. Fruit is more "sugary" than veggies so easy on the fruit juices. Focus on the veggies. Eat your fruit (with the fiber intact).

Try adding protein powder and ground flax seed to your juice concoction. It's a Happy Meal!

Hope this helps.

peace, emily

Omega 8005
I have the Omega 8004. I like it, but have not used it a bunch. Onc said no juicing until chemo is done, but I have done apples carrots, grapes and had a bit. I will be doing beets, and greens etc when I have finished chemo. I am growing my own beets, garlic spinach kale and other yummies and will try wheat grass soon. There are a couple of books that have recipes in them. A friend also recommended the "juice Man" recipe book.

Best wishes, and let us know if you find any recipes that work.
jan

lisa42 said:

what about juicing isn't okay to do during chemo?
I remember hearing from my onc back 2-1/2 yrs when I first started chemo, to not have too much vitamin C while on chemo. There was a "study" that showed it could interfere w/ chemo, then later out came another study the had conflicting results with that. I didn't know that I fully believed it, but I did minimize my vitamin C intake at that time "just in case". If vitamin C is possibly still the concern here, what about juicing do you think would be the problem during chemo? As I just started chemo up again this week & have lots of fresh veggies in the refrig. I think the concern my onc had before with too many vitamins is that supposedly, the chemo "needs" the free radicals to still be there to target? Something like that. Maybe the juice rids the body of extra toxins, which the chemo definitely is? I'm answering my own question here as I write, but wonder if other people know of different reasons- I'm wondering the "why" of what their oncs told them.
After starting to juice and eating in a healthier way almost a month now (woohoo!), it's really hard to wrap my mind around the idea that now that I'm on chemo again, I need to stop juicing. I definitely know not to give up the healthy eating, but am feeling conflicted now in what to do or not to do!

Lisa

Hi Lisa,
I would check with
Hi Lisa,

I would check with your oncologist - I asked my oncologist if it was ok to juice + she said OK (I am on chemo, folfiri + avastin). I wonder if it depends on what chemo you are on, or if different oncs have different opinions on this.