Colon cancer is there any thing you can take to prevent it?
i had colon cancer in 2001 is there anything natural that you can take to help prevent it from coming back
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Med student - lifestyle changes - diet(avoid black charred food, nitrites), exercise, stop smoking are the big ones I know about. Vitamin D is good across the board against cancer new research is showing.
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Eat plenty of fiber. The best way to keep those nasty cells from developing is to have a normal BM. Fiber acomplishes this. Try fiber supplements. Of course, always check with your doctor first.
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You can decrease the chances by eliminating red meat from your diet and eating a lot of high fiber foods.
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Keep eating properly. Fiber in your diet helps. Watch for signs of bleeding: blood in your stool, dark, tarry stool. Most important!!!: keep your follow up appointments with the doctors!!!
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Eat your veggies! Lack of dietary fiber is DIRECTLY related to colon cancer! Cut down on protein (especially red meat) intake and cut your cholesterol levels. Also take your vitamins including fish oils (Omega-3) and calcium. If you're not getting enough fiber through foods...especially the dark leafy ones, take a fiber supplement as well. And get your annual checkups since you've been treated once for the disease already.
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my dad had colon cancer when he was 21 and now he is in his mid 50's and he only has half of a colon i think that you would have to talk to your doctor about and thing you can take for it. But rock on you got rid of it i have to get checked every year to make sure i don't have it.
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By eating healthy. Incorporating many foods that contain fiber and limiting meat and fatty foods in your diet. Almonds, walnuts, oranges, bananas, apples, veggies, whole grain breads, green tea, and many other healthy foods. Make sure you are drinking plenty of water as well. Exercise.
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eat plenty of vegetables, along with a well balenced diet , stay well hydrated ,get plenty of exersize, say your prayers
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I would be sure to take fiber every day and I'd go for proffesional colonics. It's in my family and I have had polyps removed but after colonics I never got polyps on and other tests. Good Luck.
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Just to add on to Michael F........eat a high fibre diet and take an Omega 3 Fatty Acid supplement &/or any other antioxitant. None of these will guarantee it from recurring but will lessen the chance.
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antioxidants- green tea and herbal remedies.
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Absolutely! Total Body Flora from Infinity2.com. It's all natural. 11 friendly bacteria that thw bowels need to stay healthy. You need a sponsor ID to order. You can use 9337355 Good luck!
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I suggest all natural Optiflora. It's a two-product system that includes Probiotic (Bifidus & Acidophilus...microflora) + Prebiotic (FOS...food source for microflora). Patented guaranteed delivery of 500 million microflora to intestines due to the encapsulation process. Regular use of this product is very effective in helping to prevent colon and rectal cancer. Hope this is helpful and feel free to contact me with questions.
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There are no guarentees. But a diet high in fiber and drinking lots of water may help. Eating lots of green leafy veggies may help. Exercise and good nutrition are the best ways to avoid any kind of illness.
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My suggestion is serious vitimin C. The RDA says 64 miligrams a day. Linus Pauling who got 2 nobel prizes for his work on vitimin C and organic chemestry said a minimum of 1000 mg a day and 2000 mg if you are sick. I had something, to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but I was flat on my back for 2 weeks in usually Nov and again in Feb. I went on vit C when I got sick and after a couple of years I have never been sick again. During those times I was sick I took a varying amount daily and it followed a bell curve over the 2 weeks. I was up to 40,000 mg a day at one point, 300,000 mg over 2 weeks. It was a narrow range I had to maintain. If I took too much I got diarrea and if I took too little I was sick. In that range I was totally asymptomatic. You need to drink a lot of water because Vit C is a natural diarretic. Also, you doctor will say your kidneys will disolve or calcify, but drink the water and it SHOULD be fine. A couple of years ago the had a report out that said the best cancer-fighter was Interferon - at $15,000 a gram - but it also said that Interferon is a product of the natural breakdown of Vit C in your system. Shortly after that they tried to make Vit C by perscription only. Guess why. Good luck.
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Most people have already answered this question. I am just going to add a few details. Colon cancer normally starts in the lining of the colon. When we have bowel movements, the parts of lining of the bowel is slough off with the fectal matter. In theory, when the cancer/pre-cancer is extremely early the cells have not attached to the membrane and may be slough off with the lining during bowel movements. Therefore, frequent bowel movements may prevent colon cancer from establishing itself. Cellose (fiber) is not digested by humans. It passes thru the system and brings other waste along. Foods high in fiber promote bowel movements. There is another theory that frequent bowel movements limit the time of exposure to the toxins in food. Therefore, giving less chance for mutations to occur. For a former colon cancer patient, the thing to watch out for is metastises from the earlier tumor which probably are not effected by fiber. They are often in a remote location such as the liver. Maintaining a strong immune system would probably be the best advice to prevent reocurrence. To the previous poster David M: While Linus Pauling was a brillant man (Nobel Prize winner in physics), his high dose vitamin C regimen has been unversally deemed to have no effect on cancer. Check out www.quackwatch.org.
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emu oil gel caps 1 daily. emu oil kills cancer cells and is safe to take.
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No red meat, lots of fruits & veggies, whole grains. Do a colon cleanse. I think Richard Schulze's cleanse works great: http://www.800herbdoc.com/home_1024x768.asp The Master Cleanse (also known as the lemonaide diet) works wonders, too. Sounds odd, but I talked to many who did it before I tried it and my problems went away. (Lots of sites if you google "Master Cleanse", but the following link has a bulletin board where you can ask others who've done it any questions as you're going through it.) http://therawfoodsite.com/mastercleanse.htm
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There are many THEORIES, but there is nothing that would qualify as definite proof. All the suggestions above may be helpful, but the bottom line is, there is NOTHING that is proven to prevent colon cancer. You might reduce the risk, but you will not get a guarantee. Oh, and colon cleansing is a scam and total nonsense without any proven benefit whatsoever.
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Hi Richard I agree with V at the bottom of the page. Mentions herbdoc.com and his number one way to get rid of disease is to have a clean colon and he teaches this better than anyone else. Ive had several people use his methods and have healed major diseases. I cant stress normal cleansing regually. Be sure to drink a gallon of water a day as well. Best of health to you
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