Rejected by Mayo?

Positivity, you are exactly right when you talk about inflammation. We have a friend that is a doctor and a nutritionist, and he says foods are are in two groups. Ones that cause inflammation, and ones that don’t. Sugars, wheat products, processed foods, all cause inflammation. Grass fed meats, farm fresh eggs, grass fed milk products, basically things are are home grown and don’t contain artificial ingredients do not cause inflammation.

For instance, my wife as always struggled with her weight since she was young. She ate low fat/no fat foods for years because that’s what you did to control your weight. You didn’t wonder what was in the foods once the fat was taken out. A few years ago, she had to have her gall bladder removed. She found out it was because of all the low fat foods. The chemicals they use to replace the fat, will tear up your gall bladder. That’s when we started on a paleo diet. You don’t eat anything unless you recognize every ingredient in it. After eating grass fed beef and pork every day, and at least a dozen farm eggs a week, my cholesterol went down 30 points. How is that possible? The medical doctors say that red meat and eggs will raise your cholesterol, because that’s what they were taught.

Sometimes, you need to do your own research, and double check your sources, and make a decision based on your findings instead of listening to a doctor who’s education came from studies paid for by the pharmaceutical companies.

I did quite a bit of research about the sugar part. Plus, the other thing to think about is the second a piece of bread hits your tongue, it’s converted to sugar. Bread/wheat products can produce more sugar in your body than a candy bar, so the wheat part is also related to the sugar intake.

My research was all over the board. Some say it’s fine, others say it’s not. Of course since there haven’t been any scientific studies on it (because nobody wants to pay to find something as simple as sugar can decrease cancer risk), then many doctors say it’s fine.

One point that really made me think was this. When they give you a PET scan for cancer, what do they have you drink right before it? A glucose solution, which is sugar. By drinking this pure sugar solution makes the cancer in your body light up like a Christmas tree on a pet scan. So, common sense would dictate that the cancer cells readily absorb sugar more than other parts of your body.

So do you want to make the cancer happy and give it something it wants? Or would you rather change your diet, and maybe starve it? With diabetes rising like crazy, it’s obvious that our diets are full of sugar. So reducing it would be an overall health benefit anyway.

She’s doing well. No real nausea, no hair loss. She’s changed her diet because the doctor that signed her marijuana script told her if she wants her best chance for beating this, she has to do three things, and has to do all three, can’t just do two out of three. 1. chemo 2. cannabis oil 3. cut out all sugar and wheat products. She’s trying to adjust to the diet part, but it’s hard for her. My family cut out sugar and wheat products and all processed foods a few years ago, so it’s pretty normal for us. We do still have things like hamburger buns with a hamburger, but we don’t have any bread, cereal, pasta, flour, etc. If we do have anything wheat based it’s organic and if there’s any sugar in something it’s organic cane sugar usually. No corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup. Basically, if we don’t know what’s on the ingredient list, we don’t eat it. The MIL was saying how she likes those rotisserie chickens from the store. We told her…ummmm, ok, but you can’t eat the skin. Of course, that’s the best part! The reason people are so addicted to them is because the seasoning they use has sugar in it. Pretty much everything American’s eat nowadays has sugar in it.

Well the MIL has been on chemo a few weeks. So far the only side effects is she’s tired for a couple days after. We got the dr’s signature and are signed up for medical marijuana. We have a lakehouse an hour north of us and the neighbor up there is a caregiver so we signed up with him. We are going to try the rick simpson oil treatment. The neighbor makes the oil himself so at least we know where it’s coming from. For the full treatment that’s recommended it will cost about $2500. So it’s one of those things that after you read about it, and know about it, do you take the chance and not try it? There’s really no negative effects except she might be sleepy the first couple weeks out of the 90 day treatment. If we don’t do it, we would always wonder if it would have helped. If we do it, and it doesn’t help, oh well, we tried, and are out $2500. If we were talking about $25,000 then that would be different. So I guess we’ll see!

Well so far the mother in law has had 2 chemo treatments and she’s not experiencing any side effects. She had some mild nausea but it went away quickly. The only thing that’s different with her is she’s sleeping 12 hours a night. Which basically means instead of her getting up a 5am, she’s getting up at 9am. So it’s not like she’s sleeping her day away. She’s not happy because she gained 7lbs in the last week, but she lost 14 lbs in the 3 weeks prior because of all the stress of dr appointments and not knowing what’s going on. So she’s worried she’s going to gain weight!