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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!😊

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There are always conflicting studies. I read several people on this site commented that they believe xgeva prevents and or kills bone metastases. While there are studies showing that xgeva helps prevent metastases in men prior stage 4 metastasizing. It does not stop metastases from occurring in men that are already stage 4. My doctor has reiterated those facts to me as well. There are more studies that show that there are several foods that are considered cancer killing (let's just agree that cancer cells do not like) blueberries are high on the list and green tea. I say eat the blueberries before treatment. It helped me and when I questioned my radiologist oncologist she agreed, blueberries do help and they specifically helped me.