Supplement tablets and diet for Breast Cancer patients

• I'd be very careful and check before taking anything other than vitamin D. A report showed that taking antioxidants was a bad idea: www.google.com/search

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I've just read that intermittent fasting reduces the recurrence risk. They looked at fasting more than 13 hours from dinner to the next meal the following day.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../

There is a book, how to starve cancer by Jane McLelland. I have started reading it. I agree with fasting, it makes sense. Xx

Yes.  She also has a group with the same name on a certain social media site I can't mention! Low dose asprin is currently in phase 3 trials as it seems to lower recurrence,  though I'd not take it during chemo. 

Hi Raf44 I would agree with Londonmumof2 Vit D is the only one I would add to the mix . I am going to tag GodWilling who if I remember rightly has used fasting in the past and has just restarted . Got brain fog this morning so Not sure but don't think chemo involved 

No brain fog for you Northerner your memory is in tip top condition

I'm doing the intermittent fasting diet which I started for weight loss (it's not the purpose of the diet but a side effect of it).  One of the health benefits it claims is that it balances our hormones or something along those lines.  I'm hoping it will have an effect on keeping my hormone receptive cancer from returning but who knows.  If there are hormones to feed off then maybe it gets first pickings.

What I did read is that hormones are stored in fat cells so the more fat cells we have the more hormones stored so keeping excess weight off sounds like a good idea.

My recommendation is live healthy, exercise, keep your weight down and regularly check your breasts for any changes.  Anything else is up to you and may or may not work - I think there is a lot out there that makes claims but who knows.

xx

Hi Raf44, I do the 13 plus hour fasting that Londonmumof2 mentioned, in fact I thought I read about it via one of her previous posts a while ago! I don’t do it for weight loss but because of the association with lower recurrence rates mentioned. I find 13 hours very manageable and it’s made us move our evening meal earlier which is generally regarded as good for digestion anyway , I think? 
I also remember that lesleyhelen had a list of naturally oestrogen lowering foods? Hope you don’t mind lesleyhelen, I found it really useful. I’ve adjusted my diet bit by bit since diagnosis; was veggie anyway for other reasons and wasn’t keen on cows’ milk from an ethical standpoint but there are also studies suggesting avoiding cow products if you have had an oestrogen receptive cancer so I’ve become more purist there too. I use soya milk in hot drinks and oat milk for porridge. I know there’s some controversy over soy products but from what I’ve read the main concern is with processed soy, so the milk and things like tofu are (I think) ok as they’re not ultra processed. 

Re supplements, I only take a calcium and Vit D supplement (which has a few other things like zinc and magnesium included), at the recommended dose for bone health as I’m on Anastrozole. 

Re fasting during chemo there are threads on this site if you do a search - sorry I’m not good at links. I didn’t have chemo so can’t really comment. 

Good luck with it all, love and hugs, HFxx

That's good to know about Soy and milk HappyFeet1 as I switched back to milk from soy.  It's all too confusing.

Intermittent fasting recommends only eating in the same 8 hour window every day so I eat from 12-8pm and fast  16 hours.

You get used to it and it becomes very doable especially if you keep busy to keep your mind off food.

I agree it’s very confusing GodWilling. I’m careful not to actually recommend anything here as I’m not a scientist but it’s useful to share what we do and think. In the end it’s a bit of a juggling act and we all have to decide what’s doable and acceptable for each of us. I also gave up alcohol and don’t miss it at all (didn’t drink much anyway) but if I really missed it I’m sure I’d have the odd tipple! Xx