Hair dyes and soya I am amazed that I had the tenacity to scroll through this long thread - I just don’t know where some of you get your theories about food come from. I have never eaten soya, in any form, yet got stage 2 grade 2 bc with lymph node involvement. I have Crohn’s and live on a low fibre, high protein diet, which is as organic as I can get in a sleepy place in Cornwall.
Over 35 years I have seen innumerable hospital dieticians - been on various diets prescribed by them - tretrazine free, no lactose or dairy, wheat free etc. etc. And, many times, on liquid enteral diets, sometimes by IV. None of them made any difference to the daily diarrohea or weight loss. Premier best advice I got was when I was living in Spain, by a young physician who said I needed lots of protein and dairy! Gosh I even had to get some powdered stuff from Barcelona that was pure protein (I don’t know what it was made of) and disgusting to take.
Okay, I didn’t have bc then, but a much more insidious disease., Crohn’s. Now, I eat what I want, with lots of vegetables and protein, mainly chicken and fish. I truly do not know what to do for the best, but if I have to choose between Crohn’s and bc, I will choose to live by the advice I have had by my gastros. They are not Phd. geologists, like Jane Plant, (although my current gastro has a Ph.d as well as other degrees in medicine) but real doctors who are dealing with very serious malnutrition issues like Crohn’s. I have learned to put my faith in them, because I have had no input as to diet from my bc surgeon, oncologist, radiologist, or anyone connected with my breast cancer. It is not that they don’t care, I just don’t think it is an issue… At least gastro’s have a much better idea as to what foods we need to live.
Cancer is not one disease, but one of many sub-species, and I don’t think our Oncologists have any idea as to what we should eat - they are just not interested, as has been my experience. At least my gastros care about what I ingest and try to point me in the right direction. Not one of some 10 gastros I have seen over the past 35 years have evinced any thoughts about diet being the cause of my Crohn’s - they just tell me to eat what I am comfortable with as a way of controlling it - they tell me diet did not cause it, and will not cure it, it can only alleviate symptoms. I am decidedly underweight at some 8 stones, but feeling comfortable with my diet today. However, I must add I am now on methotrexate for my Crohn’s, a chemo that was used for bc, prescribed not by an Onc but my gastro, and feeling so much better. Perhaps all cancer patients need an immuno-suppressant, and I have tried a number of them, but am very well on methotrexate.
Sorry to be so depressive, but I have to tell it like it is. I have high hopes of a non-recurrence, and after 3 yrs am NED. Long may it continue.
Liz.