You have just been diagnosed with cancer.

What will you do now?

What will you eat different?
What books will you read?
What sites will you visit?
What about your lifestyle will you change?

Discuss

Depends on the type and how advanced

Late stage pancreatic and it's steak and ice cream, plenty of it. As long as they're puttin' me in the ground, why go with a perfectly healthy heart?

OTOH, if it was something less drastic, I'd join every support group I can find. It's proven that the more support you have the better. You fight harder the more people you have around you

When the doctor first told me I had cancer, I didn't even think about doing anything "different." I simply wept.

I had the surgery and the chemo, but five years later they told me that the cancer had metastasized. It isn't terminal at this time, but it is incurable.

Just my personal approach to life, but I don't expect my diet and supplements to cure my cancer. What I do hope, is that those things will help me avoid developing additional problems, such as heart disease and diabetes.

It depends. My mom jus got diagnosed with cancer, but it's the kind of cancer that takes more than one person's lifetime usually to ever metastasize and people always die of something else, so she just checks in with her doctor and does nothing differently. I would probably stop eating sugar entirely.

Read Dr Cannell Does Vitamin d treat Cancer?

Get a $30 25(OH)D test.

Use a 50,000iu D3 once a week are as needed to keep 25(OH)D above 70ng/mL 175nmol/l

At least that will give a body with a cancer diagnosis a fighting chance of holding it at bay.
We know those diagnoses/treated when 25(OH)D is highest have higher/longer survival.
It is entirely reasonable to think the 25(OH)D that enables breast milk to flow replete with D3 is the level that our bodies evolved to attain and maintain.

Dose-Response of Vitamin D and a Mechanism for Cancer Prevention

Vitamin D Deficiency: Analysis and Approach in a Comprehensive Cancer Center

If you haven't time to watch all the videos at grassrootshealth then at least Go through the slides used in those presentations

This is what I'm doing. I'll attempt to keep my journal up to date here.
Journal

I'm reading the most astonishing book called AntiCancer. I didn't know there was solid science and plenty of research behind such foods as blueberries, walnuts, turmeric and green tea (to name a few).

Here's another source discussing this doctor's strategy

When I'm done with that book I have 2 more lined up for nutritional and behavioral ways to fight cancer. Yes, I'm going to do chemo and radiation but I am convinced that the battle is best fought with my OWN immune system, no matter what else I do.

I hear ya on pancreatic. Thank God that's not what I have. My mother died of it in 2001 after only 4 weeks of illness. It was horrific.

But yes, I agree. I would be eating like James Beard as long as I could, most likely.

I've belonged to a Yahoo group specifically and exclusively for this cancer (Farrah Fawcett is a member and if you google her, you will know what I have ) and you are SO right. The support is phenomenal. Those folks are rapidly becoming like family to me.

2 yrs ago when I first found out I had this cancer, I mostly read and asked a few questions because most of them were undergoing active treatment for Stage 2-4. I was just a piddling "in situ" and furthermore the "specialist" at Ohio State basically blew me off and said, "You don't even have real cancer".

He was wrong.

Now they are welcoming me back with great posts full of information and guidance and support.

I'm not entirely sure what I'd do, I can only guess what my frame of mind would be.

My guess is I would stay low carb and probably go lower if I could. I would take supplements that had promising results. I would look into clinical trials that seem promising. I'd talk to survivors and try to figure out who the best doctors are.

For you, the type of cancer you have also has a link to celiac disease. Are you gluten free?

Were I to be informed that I had cancer, my immediate reaction would be one of anger. But that would be momentary, just a few seconds.

I'd get myself to a large supermarket and purchase ALL of the organic grapes and carrots they had on hand, and pick up a variety of spring waters.

Then I'd go home, get out the old juicer, and while fasting on grape juice and carrot juice, I'd find a copy of that old classic entitled, THE GRAPE CURE.

Meantime, I'd be finding out everything possible I could online about Transfusions of Vitamin C - and find out if there are anymore places nowadays other than what used to be one clinic in the midwest where I could schedule a long number of transfusions.

Were I feeling desperately ill from the cancer, then every other day, I'd drop the grape juice & carrot juice, and simply fast on water.

But this is only what I believe that *I* would actually do, and I'd never advise anyone to undertake anything remotely similar.

Yes, gluten free ever since you sent me that link to Dr. William Davis' blog
Probably 2-3 months.

I've actually been doing ZC/VLC for about 5 weeks.

Annie. That's why I phrased my question the way I did. Good for you!

I did juice fasting the last time. It's tolerable, although it never satisfied hunger for long, and I think there may be too much sugar the way I did it, too. If I do juicing again, I'll skip the carrots and concentrate on dark berries and green veggies, fresh parsley and some spices.

If I had cancer, I'd overwhelm it with vitamin D...injections, intraveniously, and by mouth. This in addition to making sure I wasn't feeding it sugar.

They've discovered a specific chemical in carrots, it's a natural pesticide found in all carrots, and they found it prevents the growth of tumors.

I've bumped up my daily Vit D3 to 6000 mg daily, starting last week.

I had neglected to listen to the YouTube doctor but it's compelling! The rest of Hutchinson's links I did look at.

Thanks, Hutchinson (again!)

Clearly that is going to have to go into the category of "does the benefit outweigh the risk" for me. I will go research it now, thanks for the update!!