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David Pain
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I am hoping someone can give some advice to my cousin. She is in really bad shape. She had lukemia when she was 13. She got over that barely and was 4 months ago diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Some of the things the doctors tell her to do and more particularly not do suprisingly don't make any sense. She had a hysterectomy and searched other parts of her body for parts of cancer. They opened her large intestine searching or treating colon cancer. After she has finished with her chemotherapy she has slowly gone down hill. Her red blood cells were low throughout the chemo treatment and resulted in having many blood transfusions. For the last 2 months she has gotten a cold and after talking with her sounds in pretty bad shape. The doctor's don't know what is causing the chronic infection but have done nothing imho to treat her intestines from the surgery, any malabsorption she is having and to keep her antioxidant system functioning well. Their advice was eat lots of fruits and veggies and take a good multivitamin. Now her white blood cells are low and neutrophils?? aswell. She has a very low functioning thyroid always stays cold. Since her ovaries were removed her hormones I imagine are a wreck. She is obese and has followed the customary american diet, until now I suppose. She takes avastin.
I don't like playing doctor but she really needs some help in her recovery. I am planning on writing an email but wanted some ideas. The fact that she wasn't given anything to help heal her intestine makes me believe she is suffering from leaky gut syndrome. So this is what I have come up with so far.
15-20 mg/day (if she can tolerate it) of glutamine. Sacchromyces boulardi to help scavenge pathogens. I was going to advise her to take a d lactate free probiotic from custom probiotics, possibly a high count probiotic. Also ask her to try sauerkraut and possibly make a raw kefir milk from kefir grains.
Her adrenals I'm sure are low functioning. I wanted to include a adrenal protocol to her or variances of it.
Pantothenic acid: 500 mg
p-5-p: 50 mg
Zinc: 10 mg
Copper: 1 mg
Vitamin C: 4000 mg
Or let her take a thorne b complex and then add additional b2 dosages throughout the day and add things from the adrenal protocol to it, such as copper, vitamin c and zinc at different times.
Biotin to help her intestinal health... 2 mg x 2 per day.
Vitamin E at 400 i.u.'s.
I think including a slight variation of the methylation protocol would be helpful too. I don't have any idea about how well or poor her methylation cycles or sulfation cycles are.
Hydroxycobalamin, phosphotidal choline for celllular repair. Her folate is in the thorne b complex.
I think she needs to support her SOD as well and taking selenium to help her thyroid and glut-peroxidase. Maybe in the form of a seaweed or kelp. Then the additional doses of b2 will help with glut-reductase and help reduce coq10 to aid her antioxidant system. Possibly adding a cold pressed non-denatured whey protein 3-4 times per week.
Some of these may increase her detox system. Since she is a cancer patient I thought MCP would be the perfect thing. Since she has such problems getting enough iron I didn't think inositol & IP6 was a good idea. I wanted to avoid a herx reaction at least initially because she is struggling right now.
Mostly I wanted to aid in healing her intestines and get those functioning better and however possible keep her glutathione levels stable.
I don't know too many things about the adrenal glands and thyroid. I didn't think it was a good idea to use grandulars and stuff, not that I am qualified to make that decision. However the vitamin C that is added more than likely won't go to help aid her adrenals but be used in her antioxidant system. I just know that something needs to change for her. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated and sorry for this being off topic of cfs.
David
I don't like playing doctor but she really needs some help in her recovery. I am planning on writing an email but wanted some ideas. The fact that she wasn't given anything to help heal her intestine makes me believe she is suffering from leaky gut syndrome. So this is what I have come up with so far.
15-20 mg/day (if she can tolerate it) of glutamine. Sacchromyces boulardi to help scavenge pathogens. I was going to advise her to take a d lactate free probiotic from custom probiotics, possibly a high count probiotic. Also ask her to try sauerkraut and possibly make a raw kefir milk from kefir grains.
Her adrenals I'm sure are low functioning. I wanted to include a adrenal protocol to her or variances of it.
Pantothenic acid: 500 mg
p-5-p: 50 mg
Zinc: 10 mg
Copper: 1 mg
Vitamin C: 4000 mg
Or let her take a thorne b complex and then add additional b2 dosages throughout the day and add things from the adrenal protocol to it, such as copper, vitamin c and zinc at different times.
Biotin to help her intestinal health... 2 mg x 2 per day.
Vitamin E at 400 i.u.'s.
I think including a slight variation of the methylation protocol would be helpful too. I don't have any idea about how well or poor her methylation cycles or sulfation cycles are.
Hydroxycobalamin, phosphotidal choline for celllular repair. Her folate is in the thorne b complex.
I think she needs to support her SOD as well and taking selenium to help her thyroid and glut-peroxidase. Maybe in the form of a seaweed or kelp. Then the additional doses of b2 will help with glut-reductase and help reduce coq10 to aid her antioxidant system. Possibly adding a cold pressed non-denatured whey protein 3-4 times per week.
Some of these may increase her detox system. Since she is a cancer patient I thought MCP would be the perfect thing. Since she has such problems getting enough iron I didn't think inositol & IP6 was a good idea. I wanted to avoid a herx reaction at least initially because she is struggling right now.
Mostly I wanted to aid in healing her intestines and get those functioning better and however possible keep her glutathione levels stable.
I don't know too many things about the adrenal glands and thyroid. I didn't think it was a good idea to use grandulars and stuff, not that I am qualified to make that decision. However the vitamin C that is added more than likely won't go to help aid her adrenals but be used in her antioxidant system. I just know that something needs to change for her. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated and sorry for this being off topic of cfs.
David