Sounds like you did this a year ago - still mostly sugarfree?

Congrats on kicking a REALLY bad habit. Unfortunately, there needs to be a 12 step program to help.

I don’t know where to post this as all here is interesting. I am a RN and a Scientist. Before commenting on the sugar, let me say…

I have been telling my male patients to take two Brazil nuts a day. The reason is they contain 100 mcg of Selenium each. This is an essential for prostate health.

I typically told women that it would not benefit them the same, well, because of the fact they don’t have a prostate. Then I went to work in the Burn Unit. There we also gave Selenium at the same 200 mcg per day to anyone with a burn.

Recently in researching something else, I was challenged as to why it works. I thought “essential element.” However why essential?

I have only started my research on this but what I am finding is interesting. No, it is mind boggling that it is so simple. Just to make sure it was not something I missed in nursing school, I went back and it was not only not discussed, it was not even understood back then.

So you know what I do, I started a few hospital doctors (at a few hospitals) to prescribe gum chewing to decrease post op illius (not my idea, it came from a Chinese study).

I also got some Cancer Docs to start prescribing peanut butter and black strap molasses to increase the effectiveness of Procrit and avoid Blood transfusions in cancer patients. This in the patients who have no appetite.

The transfusions have been shown to increase the risk of metastasis of the cancer. (This also not my idea, I overheard the iron part from an 80 year old doc and figured the Peanut butter had the protein from the label. Antidotal experience demonstrated that it works.)

As a matter of fact, none of the over 600 bloodless (treated with out blood transfusions) patients who I have been case manager of have ever died even though the lowest count amounted to 85% blood loss.

Anyway, any study on increasing blood count or preventing anemia interests me. Then I came across several studies that indicate there is a connection with protecting blood and for that matter, all your cells. This is what I am currently studying.

Your benefit from the Brazil nuts may take a month and may only be minimal. However, I am trying to put a list of the foods together. I also believe there are some foods to avoid.

Sugar and chocolate are not on the list…so far. However a word of caution…if you have PMS or migraine headaches, chocolate may increase the symptoms.

If you would not mind, please contact me through my Speechmastery.com site and if you also would not mind, I would like to know any good resources you may have with great information.

Thanks,

Steeleyjon, RN