The concept is not new. We can use food as medicine to create a terrain that makes it hard for cancer to grow and thrive. It is also possible that some foods could kill some types of cancer cells. I belive this, anyway. So this week's post it to share what I have been doing in terms of diet to help my body, my terrain. Clearly, something was way off for the cancer to grow and take root. So I made changes. I never really ate processed foods or even gluten as I'm gluten sensitive. But now I am taking it to a whole new level. Every day I intermittent fast 20:4. I eat from 12 noon to 4pm and I don't eat anything the rest of the time. There is some research to support that fasting supports the organs and is a great anti-cancer too. It really isn't that hard. I am not so hungry anyway. And it is so much easier to plan and cook only one meal a day. In additon, I have a pretty strict diet that has ingredients that are very anti-cancer. Here is the list: Cruciferous veggies daily: Broccoli, brocolli sprouts, Bok Choy, brussel sprouts. Beans for fiber and carbs and I eat chicken instead of beans once or twice a week and wild caught Pacific salmon once a week. I will sometimes cook wild brown organic rice or organic quinoa with my meal and occasionally treat myself to a potato, although I will be switching to purple potatoes as they hold promise. I gave up all dairy and all other carbs and sugar. I am 100% sugar free, I eat nothing with ANY sugar in it. I don't miss sugar either. I cook beets, make salads with carrots and tomatoes and cucumbers. I eat a handful of walnuts each day and a wild organic blueberry shake with probiotics and turkey tail powder and unsweetened almond milk as a base. Those are pretty much the ingredients I stick to, changing up the configuration for interest. I also make homemade salad dressing with garlic, tumeric vinegar, and high quality olive oil. Finally, Dan and I are growing broccoli sprouts at home as I eat a handful every day. This is a fun project we do together.
The spices I use are garlic, tumeric, black pepper, salt, ginger (fresh and in spice form), and I just bought some saffrom (very pricey!) I also bought a jar of homemade fermented black walnut paste and today I used it for the first time- not bad if you mix it with olive oil and spread it on a potato! I do believe that we can create an ecosystem in our bodies that is alkaline and inhospitable to cancer growth. At best, what I am doing is hopefully killing some weak cancer cells that are dormant, and at least maybe it is making the cells want to stay dormant. I am totally happy with my new diet and think I can definately keep it up for years, especially if it works in concert with my cancer drugs to suppress and kill the cancer cells. My goal is NED: No evidence of disease. That doesn't mean cancer free with Stage 4 as it is not curable, but it means that they can't detect it, due to low volume and/or dormancy. NED- here I come!
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