Anyone read " How To Starve Cancer" yet ?

Hi Onamission!

Can you explain to me the benefits of Annatto Tocotrienol for breast cancer? That is one supplement that I am not familiar with.

Thank you!

Lisa

Lisa, Annatto Tocotrienol distinguishes itself from tocotrienol found in other sources like red palm oil or rice by being virtually free of tocopherols - vitamin E also known as alpha tocopherol. Tocotrienol competes with tocopherol for absorption. Alpha-tocopherol administration has also been found to decrease the gamma-tocotrienol concentration in the adipose tissue and skin, inhibiting both delta and gamma tocotrienol tissue uptake. The importance of taking advantage of annatto tocotrienol begins with it's unhindered absorption in breast tissues by alpha-tocopherol. Since annatto tocotrienol is fat soluble it should be taken with a meal to enhance absorption. The first link expands on adipose tissue mentioned earlier. The others a little more on annatto tocotrienol.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7460846/#:~:text=Breast%20lobules%20and%20ducts%20are,the%20breast%20microenvironment%20%5B3%5D.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20188744/#:~:text=2%2Fneu%20expression-,Gamma%2D%20and%20delta%2Dtocotrienols%20exert%20a%20more%20potent%20anticancer%20effect,Life%20Sci.
https://www.todaysgeriatricmedicine.com/archive/SO19p24.shtml

Lisa, Annatto Tocotrienol distinguishes itself from tocotrienol found in other sources like red palm oil or rice by being virtually free of tocopherols - vitamin E also known as alpha tocopherol. Tocotrienol competes with tocopherol for absorption. Alpha-tocopherol administration has also been found to decrease the gamma-tocotrienol concentration in the adipose tissue and skin, inhibiting both delta and gamma tocotrienol tissue uptake. The importance of taking advantage of annatto tocotrienol begins with it's unhindered absorption in breast tissues by alpha-tocopherol. Since annatto tocotrienol is fat soluble it should be taken with a meal to enhance absorption. The first link expands on adipose tissue mentioned earlier. The others a little more on annatto tocotrienol.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7460846/#:~:text=Breast%20lobules%20and%20ducts%20are,the%20breast%20microenvironment%20%5B3%5D.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20188744/#:~:text=2%2Fneu%20expression-,Gamma%2D%20and%20delta%2Dtocotrienols%20exert%20a%20more%20potent%20anticancer%20effect,Life%20Sci.
https://www.todaysgeriatricmedicine.com/archive/SO19p24.shtml

What are good sources for annato tocotrienol? A friend's mother, from the Abacos, used to give her children a drink that contained crushed, strained seeds from a local achiote plant when they were under the weather. Are those seeds a source of annato? Thanks...

Yes, achiote and annatto are the same. As the link below explains the method to produce a food colorant. Bixin obtained from Bixa orellana L. (annatto) is the most important natural food grade colorant next to saffron. Next time you buy cheese for example look at the ingredient list and you'll find annatto for color. Because the seeds are high in tocotrienol the children's drink contained tocotrienol although not at the concentration extraction would provide.
https://latinamommeals.com/how-to-make-achiote-oil/

Thanks! Is it hard to find this vitamin A as a supplement? I looked at some multiple-vitamin labels online and suspect that the tocopheral form is usually used in them.

Hello All, What is the best way to get started changing my eating into this "starving cancer" world? I've not done the no-processed food eating, but I'd like to try. It gets a little overwhelming to know where to start. I am a breast cancer survivor, double mastectomy after TNBC, and just reached my 2-year milestone. I've been reeling from chemo to cancer surgery, DIEP flap, a hysterectomy, parathyroid surgery, and in July, I'll finish my surgery-schedule with the revision surgery in plastics. I'm TIRED, but the cancer is gone. I want to focus on changing my lifestyle - diet, exercise, sleep, how I take in life . . but the eating part seems all too confusing after over 50 years of eating what seems good to me. Can someone recommend some good solid steps to take in getting started? My BMI is too high, and my post-cancer treatment body is worn out. I'd like to start moving forward. Thanks in advance.

There are a lot of books out there that can help you. Two that I have read are, "Chris Beat Cancer" by Chris Wark - my daughter gave me - and "Keep Your Breasts" by Susan Moss - my Naturopath loaned me. Both of them have a lot of information on diet, exercise and lifestyle changes, etc. There are probably other ones.

It is a big change, so I started out slowly and am still working on it a little bit at a time. I was not able to face changing everything overnight, so I am easing myself into it.

I started adding a lot more vegetables and fruits to my diet, cutting way down on meat (eventually I'd like to do at least a few weeks of no meat), cutting way down on dairy, buying organic when I can and if I can afford it. I am upping my exercise (more walking and lifting weights (at home) and hope to start swimming soon), learning how to do meditations and mindfulness exercises. One of my daughters bought me a juicer and so I am trying to use that.

There is a lot of help on "YouTube" for free, on meditations, mindfulness, seniors exercise workouts - some are only 15 minutes per day if you want to start out small. There is also a lot of information about all different kinds of cancer subjects on YouTube that I found helpful. I had to try to find as much free resources as I can because we are not rich. 🙂

Also I started seeing a Naturopathic Dr. who is helping me to get my body more healthy by taking some natural supplements etc.

It is a process and I try to praise myself when I see some improvements. I've started to lose some of the belly fat that I am sure contributed to my cancer, since belly fat stores estrogen.

Try to do it in little bits so that you don't feel overwhelmed. Good Luck! 🙂