“A Patient’s View on Nutrition, Supplements, Integrative Oncology, and Complementary Therapies”

lines for pain management along with the Society for Integrative Oncology.)

“A Patient’s View on Nutrition, Supplements, Integrative Oncology, and Complementary Therapies” (Robert Ellis and Glenn Sabin) [#33] ●Increase the effectiveness of treatments . For example, there are some supplements that are considered chemo sensitizers that have the potential to improve your response to treatment. ●Add complementary or adjunct treatments .

For example, the Care Oncology protocol uses off-label drugs, repurposing drugs that have been used for other diseases to treat cancer. ●Optimize general health . For example, boosting your immune system, energy, and improving quality of life. What are the challenges of complementary therapies?

Complementary treatments suffer from the same challenges of complexity and personalization that guide conventional treatments. Some things that are good for some cancers may not be good for your cancer. Things that may be helpful to prevent cancer are not helpful once you have been diagnosed with cancer or your cancer progresses.

There may be differences in what's helpful, whether or not you're hormone sensitive, castrate resistant, metastatic, or non- metastatic. And there are contraindications with several natural products when used with certain anti-cancer and supportive care agents. What are some tips for complementary therapies? ●Nutrition: Nutrition and diet are core determinants of health.

There are other lifestyle factors that are quite powerful as well, but diet is key. Healthy diets include “pescetarian” (vegetarian plus fish) or Mediterranean (based on the traditional foods of countries that border the Mediterranean Sea, including whole grains, vegetables, legumes, fruits, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices, and olive oil as the main source of added fat.

) You should eat a rainbow of plants, and well-sourced cold water, omega-rich fish, such as salmon, halibut, cod, sardines, and mackerel. For prostate cancer, you may consider avoiding eggs and dairy products. Broccoli, pomegranate, turmeric, and green tea have been shown to correlate with a positive impact on prostate cancer cells.

You should try to fit these things in your diet using a “diet first” approach to get that bioavailability with clean whole foods, and then supplement as necessary, ideally under the guidance of an integrative oncology-trained practitioner.

●Supplements: Your selection and titration of supplements should be informed by blood analysis of nutrient levels and biomarkers, such as oxidative stress/free radicals, inflammation load, circulation, and glucose levels, with retesting every six months or so. ●Beverages: You should consider consuming various organic brewed teas such as green, turmeric (curcumin), and reishi mushroom.

●Fasting: Intermittent fasting and fast-mimicking diets during active treatment helps to keep digestion less busy, and may also increase efficacy of systemically-delivered drugs.

es: You should consider consuming various organic brewed teas such as green, turmeric (curcumin), and reishi mushroom. ●Fasting: Intermittent fasting and fast-mimicking diets during active treatment helps to keep digestion less busy, and may also increase efficacy of systemically-delivered drugs.

This has also been shown to help mitigate the often deleterious side effects of therapy, namely nausea. ●Drug interactions : Resources include drugbank.com and Memorial Sloan Kettering’s About Herbs for herbs, drugs, and interactions.

“A Patient’s View on Nutrition, Supplements, Integrative Oncology, and Complementary Therapies” (Robert Ellis and Glenn Sabin) [#33] ●Integrative oncology providers : Keith Block, who's arguably the father of modern integrative oncology, Dawn Lemanne (guidance on off-label anticancer agents), and Will LaValley (guidance on off-label, repurposed, often generic drugs).

See the directory of providers in North America on Glenn Sabin’s website for more. For naturopathic physicians, you should look for a FABNO-certified practitioner. ●Book recommendations : “How To Starve Cancer ”, “n of 1” ●Reducing stress: Exercise, meditation. What’s the future of precision integrative cancer care? In the future you will be treated with personalized conventional therapies (e.g.

, drugs, radiation, surgery) that attack your tumors, complemented by personalized nutrition and lifestyle treatments. You will be prescribed very specific diets and lifestyle changes that are tailored to your underlying pathology, as well as the agents that you may be getting in your treatment.

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You should always consult a doctor about your specific situation before pursuing any health care program, treatment, product or other course of action that might affect your health.

“A Patient’s View on Nutrition, Supplements, Integrative Oncology, and Complementary Therapies” (Robert Ellis and Glenn Sabin) [#33] Meeting Notes The information and opinions expressed on this website or platform, or during discussions and presentations (both verbal and written) are not intended as health care recommendations or medical advice by Cancer Patient Lab/Prostate Cancer Lab, its principals, presenters, participants, or representatives for any medical treatment, product, or course of action.

You should always consult a doctor about your specific situation before pursuing any health care program, treatment, product or other course of action that might affect your health.

n. You should always consult a doctor about your specific situation before pursuing any health care program, treatment, product or other course of action that might affect your health.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS supplements, integrative oncology, oncologist, cancer, agents, diet, patients, disease, drugs, approach, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, prostate cancer, supplementation, oncology, treatment, glenn, eat, glen, turmeric, lifestyle SPEAKERS Glenn Sabin (56%), Robert Ellis (22%), John Powers (9%), Kevin Fordney (5%), Rick Stanton (4%), Eric Hall (2%) Robert Ellis (0:03): Welcome to the Prostate Cancer Lab.

We have a very special guest, Glenn Sabin, and this is the first session that we've held where the topic is integrative oncology. We're going to look at some alternative medicine, nutrition, complementary or adjunct kinds of approaches to support prostate cancer treatment.

This is a really important topic for us to look at because, first of all, if you've had an experience similar to me when I was first diagnosed, the first doctor I consulted was Dr. Google.

Of course, what you discover immediately is that there's so much conflicting evidence or conflicting information available when it comes to integrative oncology, alternative therapies, nutrition, or supplements. We thought that it would be invaluable to hear from people who are actually applying these strategies with patients.

We're including integrative oncology in the conversation because we think it's essential to keep it on the same level as everything else. There are some people, including our guest today, who have gotten remarkable results by employing these approaches. We intend for this to be the first in a series of panels and guests to explore this topic.

Before I turn it over to Glenn, I just want to talk very briefly about why I think this is so important and what the challenge is for us as patients. First of all, integrative medicine, nutrition, and supplements can be extremely beneficial in our treatment. It is a good way to manage the side effects of some of the other medications or treatments that we're on.

For example, if you're doing chemo, there are things that can help, supplements and so forth. They can help with nausea that are a little bit less potent than the medications that we are often prescribed.

“A Patient’s View on Nutrition, Supplements, Integrative Oncology, and Complementary Therapies” (Robert Ellis and Glenn Sabin) [#33] increase the effectiveness of some of our treatments; for example, there are some supplements that are considered chemo sensitizers that have the potential to improve our response to treatment.

There are complementary or adjunct treatments like the Care Oncology protocol, which is a protocol using off label drugs. Repurposing drugs that have been used for other diseases to treat cancer had been on that protocol for several years. Also generally optimizing health: boosting our immune system, energy, etc.