Bone Marrow Cancer Diet

[Qali Aden]

Hello Everyone.

My family and I have recently found out my mom has bone marrow cancer and it's been really a tough time for my siblings and I.

My mother's last check up we discovered one of her lungs is damaged. My mother now needs an oxygen tank for her breathing and the doctors informed us it would be temporary.

I have been doing a lot of reading and certainly do not want to make a mistake with her diet and treatment plan.

I need information from people with more experience with cancer nutrition to aid me in letting me know what kind of meals I should be preparing for her.

My mother has lost weight and do not want to just feed her green vegetables; please help me with different and full healthy meals I should be making for her.

Thank you.

 

[Braveheart]

Hello Everyone.

My family and I have recently found out my mom has bone marrow cancer and it's been really a tough time for my siblings and I.

My mother's last check up we discovered one of her lungs is damaged. My mother now needs an oxygen tank for her breathing and the doctors informed us it would be temporary.

I have been doing a lot of reading and certainly do not want to make a mistake with her diet and treatment plan.

I need information from people with more experience with cancer nutrition to aid me in letting me know what kind of meals I should be preparing for her.

My mother has lost weight and do not want to just feed her green vegetables; please help me with different and full healthy meals I should be making for her.

Thank you.

Am so sorry about your mother...the thing that jumps out at me immediately is your comments about vegetables...where's the protein?

To help you maintain your body and build up your strength: • eat small nutritious meals often during the day and include protein with your meals.

 

[Amazoniac]

Hi Qali,
A Cancer Therapy By Max Gerson - Selected Parts
Peat's Surprising Response To My Email. A "Ray Peat Vegan" Is Possible
You'll probably read and receive conflicting information, many recommendations here on the forum are meant for someone that is already robust. Protein is a good example, its metabolism is often deranged in people that are weakened, and animal proteins tend to amplify some issues, and the temporary elimination makes everything else safer. It can be spared with plenty of carbohydrates and there are many plant foods that provide enough of it to support recovery.
I suggest that you focus on the principles instead, and they are more meaningful when they are within their context. Which is why reading the information from a book or article is more valuable. Trying to come up with something useful by gathering random suggestions can be confusing.

If you don't have the time, just use this as a reference until you can adjust on your own based on what you know and how she responds:
https://gerson.org/pdfs/Foods-For-The-Gerson-Diet.pdf

Our dear burtlancast (forum member) has many good posts:
https://raypeatforum.com/community/search/2275432/
You can also search for terms posted by him using the search engine.

 

[Braveheart]

I believe there are certain types of cancer that do not respond well to Gerson therapy, among these are cancer of the blood/bone/leukemia.

 

[Braveheart]

From the GERSON site:

The full Gerson Therapy should not be applied for the following conditions:

• • • Acute leukemia
    • Brain metastasis (click here for more information)
    • Heart stent or heart valve replacement
    • Recurrent ascites, advanced ascites (fluid in abdomen)
    • After a bone marrow transplant
    • Brain tumors (click here for more information)
    • Pacemakers
    • Stem cell transplant (click here for more information)

For patients with these conditions, it may be possible to adapt some portions of the Gerson Therapy for overall health enhancement or use a very reduced protocol with caution–though this may or may not provide sufficient therapeutic benefit.

The Gerson Therapy would not be recommended as a primary treatment option for these conditions listed above, and we would not expect it to reverse the disease.

Contraindications and Cautions for the Gerson Therapy | Gerson Institute

 

[Amazoniac]

From the GERSON site:

The full Gerson Therapy should not be applied for the following conditions:

• • • Acute leukemia
    • Brain metastasis (click here for more information)
    • Heart stent or heart valve replacement
    • Recurrent ascites, advanced ascites (fluid in abdomen)
    • After a bone marrow transplant
    • Brain tumors (click here for more information)
    • Pacemakers
    • Stem cell transplant (click here for more information)

For patients with these conditions, it may be possible to adapt some portions of the Gerson Therapy for overall health enhancement or use a very reduced protocol with caution–though this may or may not provide sufficient therapeutic benefit.

The Gerson Therapy would not be recommended as a primary treatment option for these conditions listed above, and we would not expect it to reverse the disease.

Contraindications and Cautions for the Gerson Therapy | Gerson Institute

Interesting. Thanks for questioning what I post.
What conditions are not treatable with the Gerson Therapy? | Gerson Institute
However, despite the fact that they warn that it's usually not enough, I still think that regarding dietary choices it's the way to go, Koch used to recommend something similar for his protocol. How would you suggest to adapt?
What about Koch's reagents? Are there clinics offering his treatment?

 

[Regina]

Hello Everyone.

My family and I have recently found out my mom has bone marrow cancer and it's been really a tough time for my siblings and I.

My mother's last check up we discovered one of her lungs is damaged. My mother now needs an oxygen tank for her breathing and the doctors informed us it would be temporary.

I have been doing a lot of reading and certainly do not want to make a mistake with her diet and treatment plan.

I need information from people with more experience with cancer nutrition to aid me in letting me know what kind of meals I should be preparing for her.

My mother has lost weight and do not want to just feed her green vegetables; please help me with different and full healthy meals I should be making for her.

Thank you.

Hi, if you search around the forum, you might find more suggestions and deeper insight. In my notes, I have:
High doses vitamin A (100,000 units); vitamin K2 45mg-90mg daily; cyproheptadine (anti-serotonin/anti-fibrosis); ketotifen and tetracycline at 250mg-500mg daily; NAD.
All best.

 

[Amazoniac]

I asked Ray about his ideas on vegetarianism and how key that is to the Gerson diet outcomes.
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The ratio of potassium to sodium, and the avoidance of polyunsaturated oils, were basic principles of Gerson’s. I think his objection to milk and cheese was based on their high fat content, and the addition of salt to cheese. The nutritional composition of milk from grass fed animals is very similar to that of the grass they ate, apart from the saturation of the fatty acids. The current ideas of the Gerson diet don’t accurately reflect Gerson’s ideas; for example, the book his daughter published about 20 years after his death advocated using linseed oil, on the pages where he had warned in capital letters against using any oil, and she claimed that she had found information in his office indicating admiration for Johanna Budwig’s ideas, including the use of linseed oil.

 

[Xisca]

Hello Everyone.

My family and I have recently found out my mom has bone marrow cancer and it's been really a tough time for my siblings and I.

My mother's last check up we discovered one of her lungs is damaged. My mother now needs an oxygen tank for her breathing and the doctors informed us it would be temporary.

I have been doing a lot of reading and certainly do not want to make a mistake with her diet and treatment plan.

I need information from people with more experience with cancer nutrition to aid me in letting me know what kind of meals I should be preparing for her.

My mother has lost weight and do not want to just feed her green vegetables; please help me with different and full healthy meals I should be making for her.

Thank you.

My mom just died of leukemia after 4 months of not fighting. She chose to do no chimio and profit normally of her time. About diet, she would say she wanted to eat what she wanted. In the end she lost weight and could not eat.
She was happy to be understood and to not be convinced to do what she did not want to, though hard for some siblings.
i fully supported her and she was very relieved of this.
Your situation is different, but the common point is to ask your mother what she wants. You ask about diet, so I answer about diet. You do not say her age and what sort of person she is with what sort of believes and wishes.... But for any disease I recommand as very concentrated, tasty and easy to digest, raw egg yolk and raw honey.

 

[Rinse & rePeat]

My mom just died of leukemia after 4 months of not fighting. She chose to do no chimio and profit normally of her time. About diet, she would say she wanted to eat what she wanted. In the end she lost weight and could not eat.
She was happy to be understood and to not be convinced to do what she did not want to, though hard for some siblings.
i fully supported her and she was very relieved of this.
Your situation is different, but the common point is to ask your mother what she wants. You ask about diet, so I answer about diet. You do not say her age and what sort of person she is with what sort of believes and wishes.... But for any disease I recommand as very concentrated, tasty and easy to digest, raw egg yolk and raw honey.

Raw foods are not good for immune non tumerous cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and sarcoma cancers. It is like feedinh raw honey to a newborn, the immune system is not strong enough to fight off any pathogens that could be in raw foods. It is a "what heals you could kill you" situation. It is believed by some cancer specialists that a high protein and fat diet is best for myeloma, leukemia, lymphoma and sarcoma (connective tissue/blood cancers). Solid tumor cancers can benefit from a higher fruit and vegetable diet, "Peaty" well cooked ones if course!