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Any diet restrictions with radiation? What were your side effects?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 6 10:40am | Replies (52)Comment receiving replies
Eat blueberries. My wife found research that showed radiation is more effective when taking blueberries. It cannot hurt. I ate tones of blueberries while on radiation.
Research suggests that blueberries may enhance the effectiveness of radiation therapy for cancer treatment, including prostate cancer:
Radiosensitization: Blueberries contain resveratrol, which can make cancer cells more sensitive to radiation.
Antioxidants: Blueberries contain antioxidants that can reduce abnormal cell growth that contributes to cancer.
Inhibiting cancer cell growth: Blueberries can inhibit the growth of cancer cells.
Promoting cancer cell death: Blueberries can promote the death of cancer cells.
"One study found that combining blueberry extract with radiation therapy reduced the number of human cervical cancer cells by around 70%. In comparison, radiation therapy alone reduced the number of cancer cells by 20%, and blueberry extract alone reduced them by 25%."
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Sloan says ONLY cooked fruit - including blueberries which I love. And absolutely NO antioxidants of any kind. Blueberries don’t have all that much compared to supplements so they are probably not contraindicated.
However, antioxidant supplements are to be avoided. The radiation actually creates free radicals (oxidants) in the cancer cells and causes their metabolism to malfunction, thus weakening their ability to reproduce. ANTI-oxidants may actually UNDO what the radiation is trying to accomplish!
I don’t think you have to worry if you took them during your treatment since most supplements are poorly absorbed in most cases or are in amounts totally inadequate to do the job.
Even the health benefits of resveratrol have been debunked as they are portrayed in wine consumption. You’d have to drink something like 10,000 bottles of wine in a single sitting to get the amount of resveratrol that might clean your arteries.
Great PR for the wine industry but not so good for us. Drink the wine because you like it!😊