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Prostate radiation. I'm at 18:28 sessions; I've got questions
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@mjp0512
There could still be a connection to diet. Foods that have a fair amount of myristic acid set my gut into overdrive. The foods that have myristic acid include anything with palm oil, palm kernel, coffee, beer, wine, (but I can still enjoy hard liquor) . Yep, new normal is where it is at.
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@ededed, there is a big connection between food and radiation treatment, and they are divided into two camps: foods that irritate the bladder and foods that cause gas. The former can potentially increase irritation due to the radiation also irritating the bladder, "enhancing" the pain, while the latter can cause the prostate to move away from where it's supposed to be, causing the radiation to miss its mark (and potentially hitting the wrong thing).
I've gone lactose-free since I'm a pretty farty kind of guy. I still fart to some degree, but not as much as I used to. As far as the former, I experiment and test. There are two good documents you can look at; I've placed links below. When I first saw the first document (from the VA), I told my wife to just shoot me now. But the reality is you can experiment to see what you can do.
https://www.nutrition.va.gov/docs/Oncology/RadiationTherapyforProstateCancerNutritionMar2025.pdf
and
https://scienceinsights.org/what-foods-to-avoid-during-prostate-radiotherapy/
Good luck!
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@ededed - Any diet without coffee is not worth getting out of bed for.