Re omega threes
DHA particularly and EPA are only found in limited foods fish oil being one of them.
From the trials DHA appears to be an important factor.
The body does not make it easily at the best of times.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/77/1/226
High sixes are found in most vegetable oils (virgin olive is one exception only about 10% six) and flax seed which is lowish in six and high in three.
You might want to show your nutritionlist onc the Greek diet post and ask him or her their thoughts, particularly the later trials on DHA and cox inhibitors / intravenous fish oil based nutrition - re inflamatory factors etc.
I would be interested in their reaction to the results of the trials.
I have also posted a trial listing synergies between omega three and various chemos.
I think I have seen a suggestion threes may help stop resistance to Herceptin, but am not certain. I have looked previously but will look again.
You can get tested for the levels of threes and sixes.
Reasons for posting - I am not a carer - and not married - a mix of reasons - previous association - my conviction that BC at least in part is part of wider western loss of health and that excess six and lack of three plays a large part ( which includes lack DHA EPA and body failings to make - it looks like this may be due in part to excess six and in part to trans fats and I guess increased uses of cox blockers asprin etc) - it keeps me busy - and it is rewarding and motivating to feel of some use now and then.
From a different perspective Smart Fats M Schmidt sets out some of the wider implications of the western diet on humanity - some of which had begun to form in my much more limited knowledge space - implications include a string of diseases, increased aggression, mental issues, ADHD etc in children, obesity, long term intelligence - (in animals deprived of EPA DHA omega three number of brain cells drops each generation) ............. far worse as a comparison comparison than smoking.....potentially unecessary suffering???...... I just hope it does not take as long for the message to get across. I would put a health warning on all products containing trans fats and high six vegetable oils if I could wave a magic wand.
The portrait of the scream comes to mind - omega six she shouts mixed with images of pain.
Please do have a look at the trials at the end of the Greek Diet post, on the edge but if the options are running out maybe at least asking your advisors / nutritionalist what they think of them even as adjuvant.
This article was thought provoking in its implications if you did not see it.
http://www.cabnr.unr.edu/cabnr/newsl...nandcancer.pdf
And adjuvant or in any combination the side effects of omega three DHA should not require any understandable expletives.
RB