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ADT & Diet: What are others generally eating in a day?
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I originally posted this back in Dec. Happy to see so much discussion!!
After so many visits, our Mayo team did not seem overly concerned with our diet. I’ve brought it up to our Oncology team members a few times. We eat pretty healthy. I cook our meals & any desserts from fresh real ingredient- always sneaking in protein & all kinds of seeds, flax, chia etc. Lowfat yogurt & almond milk. Only eat red meat on rare special occasions. It felt like a “enjoy your life” discussion with Mayo, which sadly I do understand under the aggressive situation we find ourselves in. So, we are eating healthy overall but giving ourselves the permission to occasionally be bad just for fun 😊
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I agree 100%, occasional anything for special events is absolutely OK 😎 !!! It is only when something "not so healthy" is in our diet every day and on regular bases that it can have any effect.
Changing one's diet on a long run is one of the most difficult things for people to achieve - many doctors do not even mention it since there is about 99% chance that it will not happen. I am not talking about cancer only here, it applies to all diseases. Many times it was proven that high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, etc. can be greatly prevented and even reversed with proper diet and exercise but it is soooo hard for humans to do it, most doctors just offhandedly mention it and than offer drugs for fast fix. People are happy to see nice blood-work results but their problem is not fixed. It just "looks good" on a blood panel and the problem will continue to get bigger and bigger with adding drugs that "correct" side effects of the first drugs etc.
Honestly, if I was a doctor myself, I would have the same approach since life-style changes are so hard for people to make. So, I am not surprised that Mayo doctors do not spend much time on it. UCSF is very active in doing actual research in complementary medicine, they have the whole center dedicated to it (UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health).
Anyways : ))), I digress lol, it is all up to individual patient to implement what they want or can or not implement anything if they want.
Whatever I post I post for others trying to inform and help , I already know all of this. ; ) For my husband this special diet did not prevent BCR but for many others it MIGHT : ))) ! That is my motivation - to help others. 🥰
Also, having a wholesome diet and exercise supports body during horrible therapies involved (RT and ADT, pluvicto, chemo) and can help prevent lasting side effects. I mean at least that is obvious and proven fact in multiple studies done with PC patients.