the anti-inflammatory diet

you are what you eat, right?

yep.

so when i was diagnosed i was going on 4 years with a mostly organic and meditteranean diet.
i was exercising, moving.
i was writing and doing other creative things.
i was traveling and taking pictures.
mostly stress free.

eat me, hodgkin's, you bastard.

and if that's not bad enough? the doctors try to scare the shit out of you so you don't even have time to go for other opinions before agreeing to their "protocol" of chemotherapy and whatever, as if your life and body is the same as everyone else's life and body.

that fact actually stresses me out.

here are a list of things i've researched that should definitely be a part of everyone's diet, and it's an anti-inflammatory one!

the anti-inflammatory diet

• red and yellow fruits and vegetables
• cauliflower
• leafy greens*
• pulverized grains
• walnuts
• cashews
• e.v.o.o*
• coconut oil*
• black cod/seafood (only every once in a while since mercury in our waters-- and in your teeth fillings!--run rampant and are not good for you all the time.)
• rosemary
• ginger*
• turmeric*
• cinnamon*
• curry
• brown basmati rice
• seaweed*

i starred the things i eat/and was eating! on a daily basis pre-diagnosis and post stem cell transplant.

what i think is flippin' HYSTERICAL?

my oncologists telling me that during chemo i was not allowed to have ANY of this stuff.

nothing organic--fruits and veggies were a no no unless they were cooked.

but i can eat candy and cake and anything processed because it won't interfere with the chemo.

what the result of THAT was? 

my "disease" stuck around in the main part of my body

and it was DOUBLE THE SIZE after 6 months of chemo.

obviously, because i wasn't eating as i was before.

what i wouldn't give to sue the asses off of everyone

but life has to go on.

writing about it and talking about it help.

for now, focus on your diet.

i am not a diagnostician 

but do what you feel is right for you.

ask questions.

don't give in to scare tactics.

love and light to you all!! 

the globetrotting gamine