surviving-disease

Using nutrition to survive disease

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Surviving Disease – One Cancer Diet Option Along With Weight Loss

According to the CDC, just by being overweight or obese, you are at risk for 13 types of cancers which make up about 40% (684,000 people) of all cancers diagnosed in the US each year.  Being overweight or having obesity doesn’t mean that someone will definitely get cancer. But it does mean that they are more likely to get cancer than if they kept a healthy weight. In health care, we use a tool called the BMI (Body Mass Index) calculated by height and weight to determine if you are overweight (BMI of 25 to 29.9) or obese (BMI of > 30).  Being overweight and obese causes changes in the body including long-lasting inflammation, much higher than normal levels of insulin, insulin-like growth factor, insulin resistance and sex hormones. These changes may lead to cancer. The longer you are overweight and the more overweight you are, both increase your risk....

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Surviving Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer

One of the worst days of my life was receiving a call from the ER physician telling me that my youngest sister has metastatic lung cancer. She went to the ER after she had developed a severe cough that would not resolve and had been recently diagnosed with Covid-19. The ER doctor had been worried about a possible blood clot in her lungs as her lab showed elevated D-dimer which is a blood test that detects a protein your body makes to break down blood clots. Her number was extremely high.  He mentioned seeing something concerning in her abdomen; however, due to the CT being done primarily for the lungs they could not exactly tell what it was but advised getting an abdominal CT as soon as possible.  Now the scrambling began. Her primary care doctor had left the practice, so she did not have anyone immediately available to order...