Could it be the diet?

DON'T FORGET TO READ THE BOTTOM PARAGRAPH.

Things are really starting to look up.  Dusty is feeling good.  He had his third treatment Monday, which was supposed to be the treatment that would knock him on his butt, but he is doing great.  He told the doctor that he had stopped taking his pain medicine and the doctor was shocked.  Dusty asked if it could be the diet?  The doctor didn't know.  It has gotten easier for him to swallow, which leads me to believe that the tumor is shrinking.  Yeah Baby!!  Dusty has proven that he is a cancer warrior.  He will not go down easily or without a fight.  Food has always been such a big part of our lives.  We are total foodies!  We love food.  Our greatest joy was going to nice restaurants and splurging on good food.  But we have learned a lot about food and diet and we believe that we can do as much as the medicine.  With our efforts on diet and the doctor's efforts on medicine, WE CAN'T BE BEAT.  Dusty has done great with changing the way we look at food.  We no longer eat what we want, our bodies want what we eat.  We have discovered many delicious Vegan diets and have enjoyed preparing meals with each other.  It has been a great bonding period between the two of us.  Sometimes we cook for an hour and it taste horrible and we both just crack up or, we cook for an hour and it is delicious and we celebrate with a little kitchen jig!  I feel better and more energized and he is making great improvements.  I'm so proud of him.  And did I mention he is looking slim and sexy?  :)  Food has become a part of our lives again and we are no longer sad about not being able to eat at restaurants with tons of butter and fats.  Now, we are not strictly vegans.  Dusty has to keep his weight up and healthy so we are mainly eating a plant based diet but he eats organic, no hormone chicken once or twice a week.  We are not doing any dairy though.  There is a protein called casein that is found in milk that is a huge feeder of cancer (our beliefs from what we have studied and learned).  Below is a graph showing a group of rats that had tumors.  While they were eating only 5% casein in diets, their tumors SHRUNK. While they were eating 20% casein, their tumors grew.  So, not only can you stop your tumor growth by limiting casein, you can shrink your tumor.  I'm not trying to sway people, I just wanted to show this chart to explain why we are doing this.  I'm not blogging to change people.  This will be the only time I talk about facts and diet.

It’s as simple as this:

• The rats on a 5 percent casein diet did not develop cancer clusters.
• The rats on a 20 percent casein diet did.

WHILE WRITING THIS BLOG, DUSTY JUST CALLED ME AND SAID HE GOT AN EMAIL FROM HIS ONCOLOGIST SAYING THAT HIS CEA (this is the serum in your blood that can cause cancer cells to spread and metastasis) NUMBER HAS BEEN CUT IN HALF!!  I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW GOOD OF NEWS THIS IS.  THE HIGHER THE CEA THE MORE LIKELY THAT HIS CANCER WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD TO OTHER ORGANS.  IF HIS CANCER SPREADS TO OTHER ORGANS, THEY WILL NO LONGER CALL IT STAGE 3, IT WILL BE STAGE 4 (INOPERABLE AND NON-CURABLE).  WE ARE DOING OUR PART AND THE DOCTORS ARE DOING THEIRS.  WE CAN'T BE BEAT!