Let food be thy medicine

[starmoon]

I just found out that I have atypical lobular hyperplasia and need surgery to remove it as a precaution for breast cancer.

I want to eat to help make my immune system stronger dont know where to start

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eat lots of fruit and veg. exercise as much as you can..and keep a good weight...thats it,

i had issues with getting colds a lot some years ago..i knew this was not right so i paid to have blood test and found that i had allergies to some foods and it rejuiced my immune system by 50%... i very rarely get colds now...

some people take vitmims pills..but you dont have to do that unless you have a vitmim deficiency......talk to your doctors about this as they know your medical history .

[BadHare]

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis, but pleased you're interested in healthy eating.

Here'a some general guidelines for healthy eating that you could print for your kitchen wall or download to your phone for when you're shopping: anhinternational.org/wp-con...

Some folks opt for an organic wholefood plant based diet for reducing the effects cancer or other illness. Other people facing cancer or are high risk, opt a ketogenic or paleo diet that's low in carbohydrate & glucose that feeds cancer cells. There's lots of websites providing information on this, perhaps take a look at Chris Kresser's functional medicine website.

Whatever you decide, avoiding processed foods as much as possible is better for us, especially things that have been sold to us as healthy, such as processed margarine & oils, ^ artificial sweeteners. These have a very damaging effect on our digestion & are toxic to the good gut bacteria that are an essential part of our immune systems. It's good to eat probiotic foods such as kefir to provide us with good gut flora, as well as lots of high fibre wholefoods as prebiotics to keep our gut flora happy.

Please ask if that doesn't make sense.

[benwl in reply to BadHare]

At the risk of being a bore, I should say that the link between cancer cells and glucose is controversial in medical and scientific circles and we should be careful about repeating it here as though it was definitely proven.

There's an interesting article from cancer research UK on this

scienceblog.cancerresearchu...

[BadHare in reply to benwl]

Thanks benwl !

It's definitely not boring, & always good to have more information!

My clinical trials chum told me obesity is a worse indicator for cancer than the combined effects of smoking & drinking due to the effect of fat acting as additional oestrogen. Like anything, it's the extremes of any bad lifestyle habits that are worse.