My leptomeningeal journey

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I have been telling the gals in my cancer group to get their levels checked for magnesium, copper and zinc forever and finally last week someone asked her doc to take a look at her magnesium level without saying why. The results came back low. She was HER2-/HR+ but still, these tests are very easy to get done and if you want to try to restore to a true state of health then you need to know. You have to fight this disease at every angle and fighting it metabolically with targeted nutrition and diet is key to retaining your health.

I watched as so many in my cancer group finished treatment and were like "now what?" They had no idea why they got cancer, they had no idea why they had the type they had, they knew nothing more than standard of care.

I went to see a world renowned specialist speak about triple negative breast cancer metabolism last spring, going on behalf of the TNBC gals in my cancer group. I was amazed that he went on and on about enzymatic reactions -- which are completely dependent on zinc -- which is way off typically in patients with TNBC. At the end I was the only one with questions practically speaking. I said, how can you talk about all these enzymatic reactions when zinc is typically very low in patients with TNBC and testing levels is not standard practice? He agreed that they didn't check and kind of couldn't answer my question. This, this man, was a world expert in this and yet he totally was missing the elephant in the room.