What foods help fight leukemia and aid recovery?
First, be certain she is well-hydrated. She will need a lot of water to process the chemotherapy and a possible bone marrow transplant.
Next, be sure she has a diet rich in iron and low-fat proteins. Foods you may want to consider for her are leafy greens such as spinach, kale or collard greens; lean proteins such as chicken, turkey, tuna, salmon, and shrimp; other proteins like beans and lentils; and other vegetables such as broccoli, asparagus, and brussel sprouts.
You might also want to try blackstrap molasses and multivitamins fortified with extra iron.
I am so sorry to hear about your wife's Lukemia. Bonnie Bajorek Daneker recommended your wife stay well hydrated. I have found an amazing way to hydrate my body. I have many disc dehydration problems in my back. Stenosis of the spine is very painful! I was in bed for months before I found Kangen Water at my Chiropractor's office. I have been drinking it for 3 weeks and I am out of bed and not in pain. I am loving life again. It is amazing alkaline micro clustered water. I live in Jacksonville, Florida. I would be happy to let your wife try the water if you are close to me. My phone number is (904)716.6521 If you are too far away I can try to find someone else with an Enagic water generator who could possibly help you. Check out my doctor's website www.liveforwater.info May God bless you and heal your wife, Melanie Myers
My husband passed away in January, 2009 from complications of leukemia. He drank water by the gallons, ate lots of green vegetables, lots of proteins, and took numerous vitamins and minerals. Unfortunately, his diet did not help with his leukemia. I pray that maybe his might have been an isolated case and pray that those who suffer from leukemia will continue to follow the diet recommendations and maybe it will save their lives.
The University of Florida has done research with Lukemia and how it is affected by the acai berry. They found the acai reversed 4 differnt kinds of Lukemia. Don't know what happened to the other kinds. The place to get the VERY BEST acai is from a company named MonaVie. For information go to www.monavie.com/milestones. They have 5 different blends. The best blend for cancer support is called M(mun). It has medical research showing it helps support the immune system. 4 ounces of the beverage is equivalent to eating 13 servings of fruits and veggies a day. It is a blend of 19 fruits from the color spectrum plus wellmun, which has many patents on it. It is an easy way to get high plant sterols to fight all the free radicals created from the chemotherapy. It also helps prevent infection and it reduces inflammation. The best part is that it tastes DELICIOUS!!!! searchbum
The University of Florida has done research on how the acai berry affects lukekemia and found it reversed 4 different kinds. The best quality acai comes from a company called MonaVie. Check it out at www.monavie.com/milestones. They have blends of the acai for overall health, joint health, heart health, and immune health. They hold patents on the blends. The M(mun) has an added ingredient that has $2.5 million of research on it and holds many patents. These blends are very potent in plant sterols, which fight free radical, which are caused from stress, as well as from chemotherapy. Drinking just 4 oz of this potent beverage is equivelent to eating 13 servings of fruits and vegies a day! The best part...they are all DELICIOUS! The best preventive health strategy I have ever come across.
When my Mother was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer we found a book titled "Cure Your Cancer" by Bill Henerson. It has down to earth answers and help for almost every type of cancer (if not all). He lists what works and what doesn't and where to find supplements at the lowest cost. If I ever have cancer or another family member/friend that book would be the very first resource I would get.
I highly reccomend Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide and absolutelyno sugar for any type of cancer. In this book though, there are specifics on diet,supplements etc for each specific cancer.
Hope that helps.
It helped my mom to live 1 yr instead of 3 mos.
Good Luck.
Diana
I have been going to a blood oncologist for several years, and did not actually know why I was referred to him. About two years ago, I discovered that I have Celiac Disease, gluten intolerance. My daughter had been told by a Natural Dr. to eat gluten free as this food was causing her to be bloated. I went on the diet before going to my glastro doc, which was a mistake. He did an endoscope on me, about a week or so after I had changed my diet. This is a tube down the mouth, into the stomach and slightly lower. I did not have the indicators for Celiac in my stomach, which the doc explained that changing my diet for a week would change the blood chemistry in the stomach, but I did test positive for Celiac when he went beyond the stomach. This is not a hard diet to follow. Much label reading is required, to keep out flour and wheat products, even corn meal must be checked, as corn meal mix has flour and most restaurant corn bread or "hush puppies." Corn chips and potato chips are usually OK. I can eat oats, which I use in meatloaf and salmon patties and as a cereal, some people cannot eat oats. My favorite bread is called Corn Bread, from corn flour, from Canada at organic and specality food stores. More stores are starting to handle some products, Publix has some and Ingles is advertizing gluten free products. I get most from Greenlife, which is in Chattanooga and I think, Knoxville. Food Fare, new to Chattanooga area has a lot of gluten free foods. I do not recommend the gluten free frozen pizza, and have not tried to make from the mix yet. It is more expensive for bread, crackers, , cookies and pasta. Pasta noodles are available from corn, rice and quinoa, we think the last is best. Other wise, eat fruits (fresh or canned), veggies with no noodles, and unbreaded meats unless breaded at home. Label reading makes most soups a "NO" item, except most Progresso soups pass the test. Ice creams need to be monitored, we now eat a lot of sherbert. Not being a beer drinker is no problem for me, but it does not past the test, as do some other alcohol drinks, except maybe in limited amounts. I am 5 ft 2 inches tall, small boned, and adult weight was about 102 to 105 until I hit 30, then I added about five pounds each year until I had gone from size 6 to size 16 slacks were getting too small and I weighed 162 pounds and could not get it off. Two weeks on a gluten free diet, eating all I care to eat except no gluten caused a 13 pound weight loss. I am now down to about 132 pounds and my doctor wants me to not get below 125 or so lbs., and size 6 to 12 clothing, depending on brand and cut. I am age 70.
The BIG NEWS a year ago, was when my doctor came in after blood work very excited saying, my white count was down, my red cell count was up, and my platlets were good, and HE NO LONGER CONSIDERED ME TO BE PRE-LEUKEMIA!!! This was when I realized why I was seeing him!! He said, come annually, if I wanted him to continue following me, which I do. My recent check-up was great, my platlet count was about 435, I think, which I understand is great, and my white and red cell counts were in the norm limits. This is absolutely and completely due to not eating gluten products, period. I have contacted several fast food restaurants, requesting more gluten free foods, and putting some they had back on the menu, to no avail, one, Krystal did have a plain chicken on a stick, which I loved, but it is no longer available. My daughter has to watch fast foods due to MSG in foods, which causes headaches, naseau, and other problems. Last year, at Disney World, I asked about gluten free foods and the mgr on duty came with a loose leaf notebook, telling me what was available. When the food arrived, he informed me that he fried my frenchfries in fresh oil, to make sure they were not contaminated, which I considered most considerate. Many restaurants have gluten free food items or will prepare your foods to order gluten free, also NCL cruise line (probably others, also) prepare gluten free food on request, as I was sitting next to a young lady who told NCL when booking that she was gluten intolerant, of course, this meant eating all meals in the same restaurant. I was just careful of what I ate, and did fine. I hope this is helpful to some of you.
All greens, raw foods need to be cooked if the white count is low. Safe to stay with cooked foods due to the chance of bacteria, fungus that can cause dangerous problems. Beets are supposed to be very helpful for the blood. There are foods to avoid during chemo due to the acidity and you do not want to annoy any sores that can develop. Water is best if boiled-as if for a baby. I only speak from experience. Rest, breathing, visualization to over come the difficulties...Food grade hydrogen peroxide? NO. Best not to interfere with chemotherapy...and that includes herbs-you need to be careful. Must be very careful with interactions with chemo and side effects. Careful with the iron supplements unless the doctor said so don't take supplements ASK before taking. You do not want to mess up the chemo or marrow PLUS if on antibiotics SOME may not work well with iron supplements-jut be careful...with chemo, pain pills the intestines may get sluggish. Prunes, oatmeal...good clean fuel. All the best. Miracles can happen! I am a two time survivor.
I read in Adele Davis' book, "Let's Get Well" that a lack of Vitamin E may be a cause of Leukemia. She stated this is not proven. Adel Davis has been shown to be ahead of her time in a lot of nuitrition wisdom. Perhaps the Vitamin E connection should be checked out.
Hope this may help some of you. My uncle had died of Leukemia and he had no risk factors.
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2xsurvivor (~7th answer above) gave the best advice in this list of answers.
AVOID "Kangen Water" (scam!), "food grade hydrogen peroxide" (scam!), reliv products (scam!), etc.
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All of the information you need is available from Brenda Cobb who runs The Living Foods Institute in Atlanta. I have met several people who have had cancer and gone there to learn how and what to eat and have not had to go on traditional cancer therapies. But many people that do go to her have had cancer and are in chemo but need to detox. Here's the website in case you are interested: www.livingfoodsinstitute.com. The BEST thing all of us can do is give up the meat and dairy. It is linked over and over to cancer. And, I don't mean "cleaner" meat. I mean no meat, no dairy. It is what's killing us. Check out www.pcrm.org for clinical research on how changing our diet can prevent cancer.
Hi,
My daughter age 25 just passed of a bone marrow transplant and I know all about AML always eat green vegetables leafy greens such as spinach, kale or collard greens; lean proteins such as chicken, turkey, tuna, salmon, and shrimp; other proteins like beans and lentils; and other vegetables such as broccoli, asparagus, and brussel sprouts. These foods cancer cannot live to well in this environment. Also no flowers no plants nothing from outdoors around you after transplant. No vistitors with the slightess sign of a sniffle it will give her pnemonia. My daughter passed leaving two boys behind and trust me it was so sad I feel for you i really do think twice before transplant they are very hard to make it through not as esy as they put it out to be she was healthier before transplant and ran in to exetreme conditions after transplant its very serious condition as I am sure you know and they will tell you what your up against but research everything so if it does happen your well aware of what the terms mean like graft vs host diesese and dry eyes and lung problems I went through the whole deal for 5 years and we lost the battle so I hope your wife makes it AML is the better of the two. Good luck and god bless I do not want to ever have to go through anything of the sort again be knowledgable and have a match or do not do it. trust me these are things the dr soes not tell you. It has been so hard and I feel for you I really do wow I am so sorry as well.
Loving Husband, I have LGL (Large Granular Leukemia)which was diagnosed in May of this year. I know the stress you and your wife are under and I also know the anxieties that hit cancer victims. Someone in this forum said that Kangen and Reliv were a scam. I don't know about Kangen water, but I have been on Reliv products since August of this year (2010) and have been absolutely thrilled with the results. I no longer need to sleep during the day, in fact I outpace my husband who is on the go from early morning to late at night. I am taking 5 different products on Reliv and it has given me my life back. This is not a scam - in fact the company has been around for almost 23 years and the people I have personally met have been down to earth, regular people who have had a positive turn around in their health because of these superior nutritional products. I would absolutely look into this and also keep away from sugar. Eat a lot of fresh food! I truly hope your wife beats this! Debra
I have had a bone Marrow Transplant for Acute Myloid Leukemia. Be very careful while your wife is on Chemo with eating any raw fruits and vegetables especially if her white blood count is down (neutropenic)as they can cause bacterial or fungus infections that can be very dangerous. She needs lots of protein to rebuild all the cells the Chemo is destroying, Please do not take any supplements without your oncologist's ok as this can cause complications with her chemo. It has been 2 1/2 years since my bone marrow transplant. I have over 90% chance of it not coming back. It is not an easy process but it does work. The post above was kind of negative towards transplant, you have to be strong and keep from getting any infections and due what your oncologist says. Just remember healing is a very slow process.
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I'm sorry to see so many cruel people using this to try to sell you worthless products, ideas, and to direct you to their websites so they can make money on their ads.
Most people suffer from a critical logical error: There is a huge difference, between something that PREVENTS, and something that CURES.
Eating and living healthy most likely diminishes your odds of getting Leukemia (even that is not proven though).
But they do absolutely nothing to CURE it.
Your best bet is to follow the doctors advice closely, do all the treatments that they tell you to do, and try to stay healthy and rested to give your body the best chance at healing and recovery possible.
DO NOT avoid conventional PROVEN western medicine for some 'miracle cure of the week' from acai berries, homeopathy, or other voodoo nonesense. There have been NO STUDIES that have proven any of this stuff does anything whatsoever to cure anything.
Good luck.
I am very sorry to hear about your wife.I beleive in the Meditteranean diet.Studies have shown that apricots are very good .The rate of such life challenging diseases in the Middle east is very less. God bless you and your family.
IN 1992 Sweden's Lund University found that human breast milk in the presence of two acids (just right in a baby's tummy) will kill cancer cells. Those acids cause a protein in the milk, nicknamed HAMLET, to open up and stay open. It is this protein which kills the cancer cells. Discover magazine had an article about this in June 1999. Mix 8 oz. human breast milk (unpasturized -- can have been frozen for a long time) 1/4 tsp. vinegar (acetic acid) 1/4 tsp. olive oil (oleic acid) Take all at once, or space through out the day. Has a different taste so may want to follow with a little juice.
If a Mom is cleared by her Doctor to breast feed, the milk should be safe. La Leche League Mom's are a good source for the milk.
To give your self the best chance of recovery DO NOT eat fried anything. The closer to natural (no processing, preservatives or additives) you can have your food insures you are getting the highest amount of vitamins & minerals from it.
