What I don't know is the perfect timing for using the supplements that are chemoprotective. Once in treatment using chemotherapy, we want to maximize the benefit of the treatment while minimizing the collateral damage. There are significant differences between a cancer prevention program and a cancer treatment program. I know platinum chemotherapies (cisplatin, carboplatin & oxaliplatin) are used for many different kinds of cancer.
#SWISH AND SWALLOW FOR THRUSH FULL#
The full text is easy to find if you use the exact title to search online for it.īeing an ovarian cancer survivor, I am mainly focused on that kind of cancer. I read about cancer using glutathione to become platinum resistant in the research paper The Role of Sulfur in Platinum Anticancer Chemotherapy. I'm sure there is a time & place for boosting glutathione levels. I agree about the benefits of glutathione for cancer survivors. Interesting: Have read just the opposite on glutathione I respect your posts, so am wondering where you read this information.Īs for cancer's resilience and craftiness, couldn't agree more! The alpha-lipoic acid you take they cite as one of the richest precursors of glutathione.
Whereas glutamate gets mixed reviews, I've read nothing but exhortations to raise glutathione levels as supposedly our own cells make rich use of it but cancer cells are "suffocated" by it. They do NOT promote taking it as a supplement, but obtaining it through wise food choices (notably, raw fruits and vegetables and walnuts) and especially during chemo, by consuming whey protein, which supplies not only the precursors for high glutathione levels but lactoferrin, another substance that can allegedly lowering iron levels and lessen the likelihood of metastasis (Murray, Quilllen, Blaylock). Very interesting, as four books I've read by cancer researchers, whatever their disagreements, all urge high levels of glutathione for cancer patients, who usually have low levels in their bloodstream. Clever cancer, eh? Interesting: Have read just the opposite on glutathione It looks like cancer likes glutathione, too and uses glutathione to protect itself against chemotherapy. Will do further investigation.Īnd glutamine, I assume, is not to be confused with glutathione, which is allegedly good for us? (Isn't the former a precursor of the latter?) (Don't know if my tumor ypically features the KRAS mutation, but will try to find out and if so, avoid glutamine next time around during chemo.)īlaylock, a neurosurgeon, also recommends glutamine during the first few days of chemo with only one caveat, but not the one you cite. I do know that 25% percent of women with epithellial cancers carry the KRAS mutation. The KRAS mutation can be affiliated with many types of cancer. I've not heard an explanation from anyone other than my naturopath, who says the type of cancer that feeds on glutamine is found in people who carry the KRAS mutation. Recent research, however, indicates that some cancers actually feed on it, preferring it to sugar. Glutamine has been recommended to me during and after treatment by multiple integrative practitioners. (No harm in swallowing a little, by the way, as glutamine is often prescribed in a glass of water, three times a day, to prevent neuropathy during treatment with taxol as well as to prevent damage to intestinal tract from chemo.) Put a scoop in a glass of water and swish through your mouth for one minute a few tiimes a day. Glutamine, a very inexpensive amino acid, is a powder that some alternative doctors recommend you use as follows:
0 kommentar(er)
