Recommendations

NUTRITION

Please seek a qualified medical oncologist (Integrative preferred) to direct your treatment. The source we used for nutritional advice is my Integrative Oncologist, Dr Dwight McKee.

One of the fastest dietary methods that could perhaps to slow the cancer’s growth is to lower your intake of carbohydrates and copper. Carbs feed the tumor with glucose and copper is used in the added growth of capillary cells that feed it. For more info on antiangiogenisis (how blood supply is stopped from feeding tumors), please go to www.cancerprotocal.com.

  • For the low copper levels, read Why Am I Aways So Tired by Louise Gittleman. Very informative book about several metabolic syndromes that affects us. It does not talk about cancer, but it does talk about copper overload and simple supplements to chelate copper thus decreasing  its ability help cancer grow. And it gives a chart that is mostly accurate for the quantity of copper in various foods.
  • For the carbs, check out the Atkins website, www.atkins.com click on Free Tools and you will see there their Carb Counter.
  • By adjusting the Atkins Induction Phase (25 carbs or less with 10-15 veggies) with the info for the low copper, we came up with this list:

LIST OF LOW COPPER/CARBOHYDRATE FOODS
This is only a RECOMMENED list of things to eat that have been found to have low copper and low carbs, and thus might have a negative effect on the tumors growth:
Agar
Avocados
Blueberries
Brown Rice Chips by Eden Foods (for a change in texture)
Cabbage
Cashew Nuts
Celery
Coconut Milk by SoDelicious
Coconut Oil
Cucumbers
Daikon
DHA Fish Oil
Eggs
Flax Oil
Garlic
Grapeseed Oil Vegenaise
Goat Cheese by Mt Sterling
Goat Cottage Cheese (made from goat yogurt)
Jicama
Lemon (½ tsp)
Miso
Nori
Olive Oil
Onion
Parsley
Pumpkin Seeds
Raspberries
Romaine
Salmon
Sauerkraut
Strawberries
Summer Squash
Tomatoes
Turkey (in small quantities)
Turnips
Umeboshi Plums
Watercress
Zucchini

FOODS BEST TO AVOID
Do your best to avoid copper loaded foods such as most fruits (esp dried prunes), grains (esp whole wheat and buckwheat), flour, legumes, most nuts and seeds, carrots, beets, soybeans (except miso), shellfish (esp lobster and shrimp, 5x more in oysters), dark leafy greens, liver and other organ meats, cocoa, black pepper, yeast, cookware and water pipes.

NOTE: Soon Carla will put out a receipe book  for yummy and easy way to combine both.