Yes, is the answer to your question. Apart from chocolate and biscuits maybe once or twice a week, I've cut out booze which is a first and half my daily intake is now fresh vegetables. An acupuncturist at The Haven, a breast cancer charity, told me half of everyones daily intake should be vegetables. I've noticed not drinking seems to improve the ALP, alkaline liver phosphotase, blood results. The consultant told me ALP is a bone cancer marker. I don't have proof around prognosis, but think it's psychologically powerful to eat only foods with nutritional value.
Yes, I have. I've incorporated lots of antioxidant-friendly fresh baby carrots and cooked tinned tomatoes (not together - that would just be wrong!). I've read that cancer does not like kefir or coffee so I now drink two cups of coffee and half a pint of kefir a day. I also read that green matcha tea is very beneficial so I sometimes have one of those - I would drink more but it's just plain nasty. I do drink more antioxidant green tea in general, though. I massively crave orange juice, despite not liking it, so drink a pint a day - the vit c is also supposed to be an antioxidant.
I have liver mets, so I've greatly reduced alcohol intake. I was never a raging alkie to begin with, but did like a few once a week. Now I have one once a week, if that. I've also ditched my B12 supplements because they can be hard on the liver.
I've ditched the CBD because it's being hailed as a miracle for menopause - until someone can definitively state it does not increase oestrogen, I'm not risking it.
I've given up grapefruit because it can interfere with Tamoxifen absorption and I also don't drink orange juice or eat marmalade/orange peel products within two hours of the Tamoxifen for the same reason.
Has it made a difference? I don't know, but last January (2019) they gave me the six months to live form. I feel better now than I've felt for three years, even given the tamoxifen pain and residual chemo brain. I don't know if my changes have made a difference but I'll keep on with them.
