Mar 6, 2009 12:31AM - edited Mar 6, 2009 12:34AM by amberyba

Hi everyone, I was hoping LJ13 would stay off this thread, and like Makraz wrote let us just ignore her, I did think there was a way you could report comments. as I posted that I had once tried to start a thread that  would allow us natural alternative girls to encourage each other LJ13 is the one who put me down and make tried to make me feel worthless.

Stacey, I wrote the juicing recipe down....i have seen kale in the grocery, but have never bought any.

Althea, You always have great insight and I do enjoy reading everything you post.

Vivre, I am taking Vitamin D-3, I did research the idea, asked my gyn to check my levels and mine was 24, normal is 30-100....and I am going to my primary care doctor in about 9 days...he wants to recheck my levels. He told me there is not much out there in the way of recommended doses, but he did recommended 2,000 units for my low level. I use the NOW brand.

I am going to try the flaxoil and cottage cheese starting today. I read that organic oil in the refrigerator section is the best to use....and that organic cottage cheese is suggested too. I just hope they aren't too expensive.

Lisa, i have never heard of Zumba....and you look so fit....amazing.

Kay, i need to loose too...and like vivre said don't beat yourself up....I am going to take that advise too. I was scared after I was diagnosed to diet, I had planned to start a diet after  Christmas 2007, on christmas morning of that year I felt the lump...I made the neccessary appointments and hoped the lump was benign.....(my sister is a 9 year survivor).... I lost 12 pounds before I had my surgery....then I kind of lost heart....was afraid that loosing weight meant the cancer could be spreading.......Now about a year later, I am afraid to get on the scale now...but my family doctor will weigh me in a little over a week.....terror of terrors....ha ha!

Well it is 3:30am here, been up since 2am, and fighting insomnia

Thanks for all the support!

Amber

Mar 6, 2009 04:54AM JeninMichigan wrote:

Hello girls.   I am new to the board.  I have complimented my med treatment with holistic and alternative methods.  I will not blindly follow my oncologist through this journey.   I am lucky that she has been open to everything I have thrown at her from my naturalist and my own research.  She is one of the rare ones that knows the value of diet and nutrition and preaches fruits, veggies and vitamins.  

I take a product called transfer factor and urge all of you to look at it very closely.  pm if you like. i can't say enough about it.  I have been NED after 3 treatments (june 08) and still remain NED as of two weeks ago!!   I have not had as much as a cold during the whole treatment.  I breeze through rads and am pretty much side effect free with the current herceptin/kyterb/Tamoxifen/Arediea treatment.  

Take a look a this book.   "A Maverick of Medicine Speaks to Women" .. by Dr. Duane Townsend, MD.   If you ask your oncologist or gyn doctor, they will know this man... he likely wrote their text books.   However, he has traveled the alternative route and knows the success.  He open criticizes the corruption in the medical community between pharmaceuticals and insurance companies.   He gives amazing information regarding female health and what we can do naturally (and so easily) to make a huge difference..   I urge all of you to look at this book.  you can get is on Amazon for like $14.95.    I have read it multiple times. 

I love your thread. 

Jennifer 

Mar 6, 2009 05:03AM lisasayers wrote:

Welcome Jennifer.....I'm heading over to Amazon to check out the book now!  Thanks

Mar 6, 2009 06:13AM vivre wrote:

Anom, thanks for the link to the Fla Doc. He had some very interesting info. Especially concerning the value of chemo. He is proof that more docs are thinking outside the box and integrating their treatments. Let's hope it spreads even more. That new link sounds interesting too. I will check it out!

JenInMich-Welcome to our little club. FTOTB! That sounds like a great book you found. I will definitely look for it. What is transfer factor? That is a new one on me. Wow, we can learn a lot from you! I wish I had your onc! I really like my onc a lot. She was very caring, but strictly msm all the way. After tiring of the debate with her staff about arimidex, I said adios. I have a team of alternative docs now who are monitoring me.

Amber, my D3 level was low twenties too after I finished treatments. I do not know what it was before, my docs never tested it. When I went to a chiro to help me with nutrition, she tested my level. When it came back low, she put me on 6000 IU. After 6 months, I had raised it to 45, which is just borderline. So she said to continue for another 6 months. We tested again and it was 117! So I guess the supplements work! Now I am down to 2-4000 IU. I use drops by Carlson. One drop is 2000 iu so it is easy to take.

Lisa, thanks for the article by Dr Brownstein. It is always great to keep finding the evidence that we are on the right track, even though we have FlaLady and now JenInMich as our inspirations! Would you please give us more details on Zumba? I know you have talked about it before, but I never heard of it around here, and I was a PE teacher. I guess I went to school in  the dark ages. LOL

I am still having a hard time with the flax/cottage cheese thing. I believe that dairy was a huge contributor to my bc, so I avoid it like the plague and I still keep finding such controversial opinions on the flax. What do you gals think? I do use the grape seed oil on my skin. It feels great and is a great antioxidant, and has the same benefits as flax.

Mar 6, 2009 07:13AM FloridaLady wrote:

I did a lot of research on Transfer Factor last year.  I did take this while not on chemo.  You can find drug trials posted for this.  They do show benefit again they were not followed through on....

Flalady