Lifestyle Modifications by Uttam Sinha, MD.
Uttam Sinha, MD.
You may consider engaging yourself in life-style modification by doing the following:
1. Nutrition (Energy Source)
- Preserve gut bacteria (microbiome) which maintains our immune system
- Eat healthy breakfast and lunch
- Light dinner
- Eat healthy breakfast and lunch
- Maintain a good dietary habit eating organic leafy vegetables, fresh fruit. fish, egg, grass-fed beef (once a week or less) and less carbohydrate (rice, pasta, tortillas, sugar, soda, alcohol). AVOID PROCESSED AND PRESERVED FOOD!
- Eat the following (avoid any one of these if you have allergy, intolerance, or gastric irritation):
- FRESH JUICE: buy a juicer and make fresh juice and drink immediately (do not keep in the refrigerator for later use):
- Beet (half or full depending on the size)
- 2-3 kale leaves or Swiss chard or any leaf you like (avoid too much spinach which may cause kidney stone)
- 1/2 cucumber
- 2-3 sticks celery
- 1-inch piece of ginger root (prevents acid reflux)
- 1 green or red apple
- If on warfarin, please check INR after 2-3 days of being on this juice, it might reduce the INR (for kale)
- Steel cut oats
- Ground flax seed
- FRESH JUICE: buy a juicer and make fresh juice and drink immediately (do not keep in the refrigerator for later use):
FIGURE 1. Clockwise: green juice (top), boiled egg,
oatmeal with berries, raw almonds soaked in water
(overnight), papaya, Manuka honey (UMF 20+) in
water with lemon (center).
2. PHYSICAL EXERCISE:
Cardiovascular / Yoga / isotonic / isometric exercises that you can tolerate and maintain (30 mins to 1 hour) to improve blood circulation which rejuvenate stem cells in all organs and tissues. Improved circulation also diminishes pain by reducing the concentration of pain-producing substances and cytokines in the local tissues. Cancer cells do not thrive in well oxygenated tissue or organ.
3. RESPIRAROTY RETRAINING (BREATHING EXECISE) TO REDUCE AXIETY:
- Close your eyes and concentrate in between eyebrows, and on your breathing.
- Breathe out and breathe in via your nostrils very slowly (NOT THROUGH THE MOUTH). Alternate nostril breathing by occluding one nostril with thumb and little finger is very effective (pranayama)
- Complete breathing cycle 4-6 times/minute.
- Practice this deep breathing exercise for 5 minutes 2 times/day to maintain balance in the autonomic nervous system. Start the practice for 2 minutes each time and slowly increase the duration of respiratory retraining.
4. SLEEP
- Maintain sleep hygiene by going to bed and waking up at similar time every night.
- Don’t be on Computer. Cellphone or TV an hour before sleep (minimize AI addiction!!)
- Sleep for approximately 6 hours or more.
5. MAINTAIN DISCIPLINE IN LIFE AND MINDFUL ABOUT YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES.
REFERENCES
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- Zhang et al. Complex roles of cAMP–PKA–CREB signaling in cancer. Exp Hematol Oncol (2020) 9:32.
- Stading R, et al. Molecular mechanisms of pulmonary carcinogenesis by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): Implications for human lung cancer. Seminars in Cancer Biology. (2021) 76.
- Liyang Z, et al. Anticancer applications of phytochemicals in gastric cancer: Effects and molecular mechanism. Front. Pharmacol. (2023) 13.
