Hey R.B., I love all of your information and just wanted to share. I used to take a billion things and when I remember and take the time to eat, I eat really well and have eaten well for years (pre-diagnosis even) i.e. all organic, whole grains, tons of fruits and vegetables-my favorite food is salad with olive oil-for real. I've never been a big meat eater, very rarely in my adult life and small amounts as a kid. Lots of garden veggies and some junk when I was a kid too. I love wild salmon and try to eat that weekly.
I took EVERYTHING throughout my diagnoses: cal/mag, antiox, b's, coq10, turmeric, quercitin, mushrooms, organic green drinks, garlic and efa's heavy on the 3's and all that kind of supplement stuff.
Then as we all share info and research and i do a lot of my own especially nutrition relate i started to get really confused about what might interfere w/ chemo, herceptin (i've even tried to understand what substrates are). I also got confused by hormone receptor status and flax, as one example, and what is preventative vs. proliferative.
So now I just don't know what to take given whatever drugs I am on (meaning chemo, not like heroin or anything
). I am taking Fishsmart Ultra by Renew life anywhere from 300-900mg (epa) and 200-600 (dha)/day. I also take my probitics too.
So, I don't know what to do given all the variables. As an experiment I stopped taking all of the other stuff during this time of stability on navelbine/herceptin to see if we would get tumor regression i.e. was anything I was on interfering with chemo.
I wish I could get a very researched, balanced customized supplement plan given that I am stage IV, her +++, er+/pr+ on navelbine/herceptin with a potential for tykerb/xeloda in the future.
just volunteering too much information as usual.
thank you for all of your interest and information.