High Protein and Chemotherapy

[perfectfit]

I have a 'friend' I recently got back in touch with. He is halfway through his chemotherapy treatments and is moving back to Toronto on the 16th of March and will be spending Easter weekend with me and our 17 year old son.

Now I know that his doctor has told him to eat as much protein as he can so I am assuming that my high protein/low carb diet will not harm him when he is here.
He has mentioned that when he eats more protein foods he feels less tired then when he does not.

Has anyone here had experience with lowcarbing/high protein foods and chemotherapy?

I do not wish to feed him anything that might hurt him but I do not want him to starve either.

Edited to add: He also has type 2 diabetes and takes medication for it.

[Kisal]

Yes! I had such intense cravings for liver and garlic dill pickles while I was undergoing chemo, that that's about all I ate. My oncologist told me that the liver was probably the reason my blood stayed in such good condition throughout the therapy. (Apparently, that was unusual, because I was getting really heavy-duty chemo.)

Your friend should do well on low-carb. Stuff some liver down his throat if you can. It'll be good for him! :lol: If he doesn't like liver, try to get him to taste some chicken livers fried in butter, then covered in yummy Alfredo sauce! :yum: :yum:

(Running off to add chicken livers to my shopping list! :D )

[perfectfit]

Yes! I had such intense cravings for liver and garlic dill pickles while I was undergoing chemo, that that's about all I ate. My oncologist told me that the liver was probably the reason my blood stayed in such good condition throughout the therapy. (Apparently, that was unusual, because I was getting really heavy-duty chemo.)

Your friend should do well on low-carb. Stuff some liver down his throat if you can. It'll be good for him! :lol: If he doesn't like liver, try to get him to taste some chicken livers fried in butter, then covered in yummy Alfredo sauce! :yum: :yum:

(Running off to add chicken livers to my shopping list! :D )

He is actually eating a lot of liver right now he tells me (we chat by telephone almost daily now). It is his favourite meat in fact. Mine too but I rarely ate it because I had no one else to cook it for. That will change once he moves closer to me (March 16) because we plan to spend a lot of time together.

Unfortunately, his blood counts were down last week so his latest treatment got delayed by a week. He gets the bottle put back on on Monday.

The day he gets here we are going grocery shopping together so hopefully he will remind me to add liver to the shopping cart. I don't know if he likes eggs but if he does I will even give him liver and eggs for breakfast if he wants it. :)

[black57]

Here is something about how that ketogenic diets can be powerful treatments for cancer.

http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/2007/09/german-wurzburg-cancer-trial-shows.html