I’m very sorry to hear your friend has died.
My wife is doing well, still bedridden but able to get on and off the pot now without help. :)
And, she can make it downstairs on her own when we have to go for a doctor’s appointment.
We are both still on a keto-genic diet and I give her MCT oil, which has been shown to slow the growth of tumors:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7790697
I make an MCT oil based shake for her but she doesn’t like to drink it. The protein powder is sweetened with yucky tasting stevia, and the MCT oil gives her a queasy feeling. And she still wants carby things. I gave in last night and brought home Mexican food with tortilla chips.
Here is my latest shake formula. I emailed it along with some comments to our oncology clinic. We were in the infusion room a couple months ago and our oncologist was attending a lady that was probably nearing the end. She was on the phone with her husband, crying, saying she can’t do it any more. The oncologist gave her a bottle of “Ensure”.
“To the oncology staff: I just formulated a drink for Shirley based on MCT oil. It’s 700 total calories for an 8 oz drink.
“Ensure” is also 8 oz, but it has way more sugar (4x), which is very bad for cancer, has less protein, almost no fat, and NO MCT OIL.
I use:
1 heaping scoop (33 grams) “Vega” chocolate protein powder with greens
1/4 cup coconut cream
1/4 cup (50 grams) MCT oil
1/2 cup water (or more, to taste)
Mix using immersion blender or “Magic Bullet Blender”, etc.
The macro ratios are:
84.5% calories from fat
59% of total calories are from MCT oil
12.5% of calories are from protein (22 grams)
02.8% calories from carbs (5 grams carb)
Note that these are the same ratios given in the above papers.
Scale the quantities proportionally upwards if the patient requires more daily calories. For example, if the patient requires 1400 calories, just double everything. (duh).
One note of caution: Do not drink this all at once, but take it over the course of the day.
MCT oil can cause gastro-intestinal distress and diarrhea.
Note also that this does no good if the patient is eating a high carb diet. The patient must be in ketosis to have an effect on the tumor. The above paper states the subjects were in mild ketosis, with a ketone reading of 1.2. After seven days on this diet, a PET scan showed a 21.8% reduction in tumor glucose uptake, and they gained 4.4 pounds.
I have had Shirley on a very low carb diet since last April, less than 20 grams per day. She has been in ketosis the whole time. Her usual ketone reading varies from 2.1 to 2.8 as shown on our “Keto-Mojo” meter. Her glucose reading is usually 95 or so.
I’m afraid the research staff will probably reject this, but I think they need to see it. Compare Shirley’s second PET scan with her first one.”
Thank you for the information; I may need it myself. I had a mastectomy in 2014, and I understand that the common belief now is that cancer never goes away. Sometimes it stays dormant forever after, and sometimes it rears its ugly head.
Sometimes I try to drill down on why it hit me when absolutely nobody in my family has, or has had it. “Stress” seems to be the word that rises to the top — every time.