What do you do to stay healthy during your Bladder Cancer Battle.

[Edwin Castle]

I hope everyone is winning there personal Bladder Cancer battle.

I am sure many of you have been looking into ways to help your body fight your Bladder cancer.  I am looking to see what others do to boost there immune systems or other ways people help themselves stay healthy during  treatments.

I have taken the antioxidant root. Talking to some friends I was told about the benefits of wheat grass and started using it about 4 months ago in what I call my antioxidant smoothy.  I blend berries and juice high in antioxidants and wheat grass in a blender, I use frozen or fresh berries what ever is available. I follow this up with a hand full of walnuts. I am hoping that this helping to keep me healthy and helps to keep my cancer from coming back. ( I find out in a few weeks.)

I personally do not believe is alternate cancer cures and would not alter my care plan for some miracle cure, but anything you can do to help yourself stay healthy only seems to be a good idea.

I would love to hear what others are doing to help themselves in there battle.

Thanks Ted

[Jack Moon]

Hi Ted

 

I am now 13 years all clear. I started making changes to me diet back in 2006. I reduced  red meat and replaced with fish. I added more vegetables such as cauliflower, green beans, asparagus, and broccoli. Sounds like a simple change, but for me I it was big at the time as I did not like the taste of any of these vegetables. The dietitian I saw also told me to increase my fruit intake, eat a handful of walnuts when you get a bad urge which I did also. With-in about 6 months I lost 25 lbs felt so much better, alot more energy. Another change I made was taking Vitamin D, as I found a study out of Rochester cancer centre that had shown patients taking Vit D had better results with BCG treatments.

I believe anything you can do to become more healthy, is good. It also gives you a more positive attitude when you feel better about yourself because you are being pro-active.

I wish you all the best with your changes.

Jack

[SJay]

Exercise (the kind where you sweat) has all sorts of health benefits.

One question I always have of special foods, is how much do you really need? After you have sufficient anti-oxidants are more of any help?

I’ve always liked a wide variety of fruits and vegetables so I never felt I needed to alter my diet very much. I also mix up vegetarian, white meat and red meat meals. My go to breakfast is shredded wheat with homemade granola so I get lots of fiber and omega-3 from the wheat, oats and flax. This time of year I get to add fresh home grown blueberries and raspberries. I also avoid salt and excessive fat without being strict about it. My biggest food vice is probably the BBQ.

SJay

[Edwin Castle]

Hi SJay

How much do you need has always been my question as well.

When it comes to the wheat grass they say to just mix with water and I should be using twice the amount that I am using. I tried it the way they said and not a chance was I drinking that stuff straight. So I came up with a smoothy concoction of my own. It changes from time to time depending on what is in the house. I have often wondered  how much you really need, under normal circumstances, I would guess you get enough  antioxidants just eating regularly. Although when you are fighting cancer I have upped the antioxidants, I figure I would rather have too much than not enough. I have also cut out as much processed sugar as I can and try to stay away from junk food. I mostly try to live a healthy life style.

Thanks for your input. Ted.

[Rick B]

Hi Ted,

I started Vit D when the BCG treatments started and have continued since…8 years…7 years cancer free. I also take fish oil and a men’s multi-vit.

As to exercise and diet…I get to walk the golf course (18 holes) at least  2x weekly; a little bike riding and regular gardening/lawn care. I try to stay away from wheat but I do like to treat myself from time to time. I eat a lot of fruit (apples/grapes/peaches, etc) and there’s one or two veggies with main meals. We have assorted meals (fish, red meat, poultry, etc.) but mostly non red meats. We are blessed in that we can get away for the winter months (Nov to April) so maintaining the outside activities is easier.

I have to say that I have not made major changes but more conscious now…later in life…wisdom with age I guess.

Stay safe…God Bless!

Rick

[Nightingale]

Hello Ted,

I have always eaten a well balanced diet.  I am an 11 year survivor and approx 6 years ago, started having berries (blue, black, strawberries) with my hot oatmeal cereal every morning.  I also add in crushed walnuts and pepita seeds with a sprinkle of almonds, raisins and granola.  Sometimes I add yogurt, but mostly I have it with just whole milk.

I am an exercise freak and do all three – running, cycling and swimming.  With COVID I am doing mostly cycling and some running, but have stopped swimming for the time being.  I do one of these at least 3 to 5 times a week, where I get my heart rate up to 130 beats on average.  I am 63 years of age incidentally, so you can see it’s quite vigorous.  I started running when I was 16 and never stopped.  Road cycling and swimming were added to my routine when I turned 58 to help relieve some of the stress on my joints.

Love it!

 

[Tana]

I just saw this post today and am quite intrigued with healthy habits and proper nutrition and do my best to keep it up. I talked to a holistic nutrionist at Inspire ( free for people with cancer).  I’m still not sure what’s best for me. I read library books but get overwhelmed. – as in don’t eat lectins- don’t eat legumes- don’t have dairy or eggs or meat or too much fat. So how do I know? It tires me to eat!

I also talked to an exercise person at Inspire and so I try to do 150 minutes per week recommended and find it’s too much. Is it because am not eating correctly? So am figuring out what’s best. I’m 63 and lived off the land 15 years- quite healthy own food etc- and then was into pro fitness training and had a nutritionist  ( for 14 years). Maybe am just worn out? Ha!

Thanks for this post!

Tana

 

 

 

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