Comments on: Fabulous news!

By: Tania

Tania — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:31:42 +0000

Hello Margaret – I was recently diagnosed with MM (2 1/2 months agao) and I’ve been taking Curcumin for the last month. However, I was disappointed in my last blood test which showed no improvement, just decline. Now I’m up to 10grams a day as of this week. However, I have been taking the capsules with Bioperene and a 100mg of fish oil. From what I’ve read on your site, you mix them with liquid. Is that correct? I would really appreciate your thoughts.

Thank you,
Tania

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:12:37 +0000

UUPDATE-3/23/08- I had another blood test to see if the 0 m-spike held and as my Onc said it will go up and down -WELLLLLL it’s back to 0.02 so I’m not as sure I can get rid of this m-spike but I’m rabidly back to my regimine- Thanks to all -M

By: Sherlock

Sherlock — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:24:14 +0000

Beth, Hot baths usually depress your blood pressure. The same for sauna and steam baths. So if you have low blood pressure it can be a problem.

Margaret, I think that the person with Mgus is taking too many supplements. I don’t agree with such a strategy. You don’t need to throw a supplements-atomic bomb against a 0,07 Mgus! You don’t need to change completely your life because of Mgus. I would prefer to live AND ‘cure’ my Mgus/MM rather than to live TO ‘cure’ my Mgus/MM. This, at least, is my personal view. I ‘happily’ lived with Mgus for 17 years.

Furthermore, cancer cells are very smart. They learn easily to overcome their enemies. So if you use all the best supplements against Mgus what are you going to do when/if MM arises?

That said, what impressed me about this story is that probably curcumin can reverse Mgus (even if it’s difficolt to say, as the person in your story takes several substances). When you are dx with Mgus doctors usually follow the watch-and-see strategy. If they suggested to try curcumin, Mgus could probably be reversed, and a lot of problems and anxiety avoided.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:29:12 +0000

I just wanted to say that it was interesting to see the part about the hot baths. I believe that we can sweat out some toxins by using steam baths and hot baths. I really want to get back to that myself. It also helps relieve stress. I’ve heard that folks with high blood pressure or other such problems should check with their docs about that first.

By: Linda B

Linda B — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:10:58 +0000

off topic regarding MM, more about inflammation and immunity
Here is a link to the podcast I was referring too in my last comment or post. I’m sorry if it doesn’t work. Also, Margaret, look at what the next topic article was following the podcast link (about curcumin or turmeric)

http://www.peoplespharmacy.org/index.asp#

the name of the podcast was Ultralongevity
Book information is
Mark Liponis, MD, Corporate Medical Director of Canyon Ranch Resorts and author of UltraLongevity: The Seven-Step Program for a Younger, Healthier You. His previous book, with Dr. Mark Hyman, was Ultraprevention.

By: Linda B

Linda B — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:38:41 +0000

my random thoughts on a cloudy relaxed day

Hooray! for the successful protocol
Boo! on the flu and fever

I listened to a radio broadcast last night regarding immune system “balance”. not too much, not too little. It was very interesting. I just spent 30 minutes trying to find the NPR podcast link, and haven’t yet. But it was the first hour long media, medical acknowledgment that I had heard that too little immunity is bad and too much is bad, need to find the balance. They listed helpful tips as getting enough sleep, get regular CRP tests to test for inflammation (which I have always had to argue to get). Some doctors hate the CRP tests cause it is only an inflammation marker and not a test that tells what is wrong. Some doctors like having that info to look for something if that test is very high. A study was done on med students that for every single hour of fatigue and not getting sleep, the CRP will rise.

Also breathing correctly, as in Yoga and meditation. If breathing is quick and shallow as in anxiety situations, the CRP goes up. And good news for the cat lovers of this blog, the broadcast stated that while animals expose us to more bacteria, that that is a good thing to do while we are still less immune compromised, to help build immunity. They listed about 20 helpful tips to reduce inflammation and discussed them all. I’d love to hear the broadcast again, so will keep looking. It was a book review interview with the author, also manages a Canyonland Spa.