Sugar

[RobDK]

I love a few treats now and then. Does sugar really effect cll/sll. What about green tea. One lump or two?

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I love sweets and my sweet tooth has increased since cll. My specialist said aside from the usual negative sugar fx there does not appear to be a link to cll.

I take green tea supplements every day. The brand is called NOW, organic and clean. Hard to tell if they are helpful but i've not had a cold or sore throat since I started taking 1200 mg a day. Pharmacy said no conflict with IB.

[Cllcanada Top Poster CURE Hero]

Sugar feeding cancer is a myth and EGCG in green tea is a Topoisomerase inhibitor, a mild type of chemotherapy, which effects your DNA.

scienceblog.cancerresearchu...

cancer.gov/about-cancer/cau...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top...

Recent research indicated that fats of various kinds can feed CLL and sugar can lead to obesity, so perhaps sugar effects CLL , but indirectly.

~chris

[Ruhi9 in reply to Cllcanada]

Hi Chris, do you know which fats in particular can feed CLL?

I really appreciate your informative posts - very helpful!

Ruhi

[Cllcanada Top Poster CURE Hero in reply to Ruhi9]

adipocytes fat

The stored fat we carry on our bodies... interesting ibrutinib stops the process of STAT3... required to feed the CLL cells...

clinical-lymphoma-myeloma-l...

~chris