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Hello,My friend who has CML or ALL (the doctor is not sure) has gone through a series of chemo. He is taking SKI. As additional treatment and maintenance, we are thinking about trying some more natural methods. We heard that fasting program can help the body to detox, especially after chemo and to maintain good resultsIt. However, it seems that doctors are quite divided in whether or not fasting program would do good to leukermia patients. Perhaps, someone has more information about this? Or someone has tried it? Would be great to know others experience.

Thank you very much

Laura

Seems like a bonkers idea to me.  When you're so ill after chemo it's vitally important to maintain a healthy well balanced diet and to try to get as much nutrition as possibly.  Especially if you're throwing your guts up all of the time.    Also important to drink plenty to keep your kidneys flushed and everything working.

I strongly agree! 

The most important thing is to keep yourself as healthy as possible, so a good balanced diet with plenty of nutritious food. I can't see how depriving your body of the nutrition it needs could do anything other than make you feel even worse, right when your body is taking a battering.

Just don't go on a grapefruit binge :)

David.

Likewise, I must agree, to keep a good balanced diet, and your body " fuelled " to me seems quite logical and the route I would and do take.

Are you sure the fasting is not related to a specific period, for example Nilotinib - Tasigna does have a fasting window of 2 hours before, and 1 after so that fasts in food do not effect the drug, and its absorption / time in the blood stream.

 

Thanks! Good to know how others look at it! 

I got the distinct impression from the OP that rather than this being properly and appropriately linked to something like a "fasting window" that it was one of those totally whacky ideas that float round under the guises of "natural cancer treatment".

I've got to say that as one of the longest survivors every in the whole of the world that I'm VERY aware that I'm here testament to first rate medical science, innovative treatment, fantastic scientific research and development, clinical trials of some serious pharmaceuticals and good luck!

Like others have mentioned I am a huge advocate for just a normal well balanced diet and exercise and activity.     It irritates the heck out of me when I hear the latest "fad" about such as fasting to detox! carb free, dairy free,  blah blah blah.

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Over the past decades I've heard some bonkers stuff about natural cure for cancer.  I used to just smile sweetly while tuning my ears to off.  Nowadays though I've switched off my censor and be polite buttons and when someone tells me such as "eat loads of broccoli, it cures cancer"  ... and yes I've been told that!   I respond with something along the lines of "don't be so stupid.  If broccoli cured cancer people wouldn't be going through really difficult treatment and making desperate efforts to stay alive.   Furthermore I eat brocolli & I'm not so stupid as to think that there's a simple cure all for anything"

And at the risk of offending and being entirely inappropriate have you noticed how so many of these stupid ideas come from people who look and are really unhealthy!

Heck I have leukaemia and have had it for more than 2 decades and yet in my 60's I run a business doing a very physical job:  training horses and people who undertake equestrian sports.