Most Cancer Patients Are Taking the Wrong Supplements — Here's What Works | Cancer Drug Designer

So with the topic for tonight, supplements that backfire, the real point to this is that the supplements that you take, the supplements that you can take are incredibly, incredibly context dependent.

And In all honesty, what works well for one person will probably fail miserably for another person.

In some cases, literally undercut their treatment or make their cancer worse.

There are really very few supplements or off-label drugs or vitamins that are truly across the board bad.

There is one, but in terms of across the board bad, There's really very, very few.

Vitamin B12 is the one that falls into that category, which sadly is incredibly common.

Many supplements, many vitamins are loaded up with large amounts of B12.

And clinical trials have shown multiple times that supplementing with B12 during treatment both increases the growth rate of the tumor and protects it from being killed, and so vitamin B12 is not your friend during treatment.

Almost everything else falls into these conditional buckets, the conditional buckets that people don't talk about, where in some cases the supplement is very, very helpful, and in other cases it's incredibly, incredibly bad.

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So we're starting right off the bat.

Cam's dad has a great comment saying, I'm puzzled lately with the number of hacks to better the pathways versus diet, like vitamin D and melatonin and EGCG, and where a very good diet could do as much, or is it stacking? So the different supplements do different things.

Some of them can be replaced by diet.

And it depends on which ones.

So for instance, in the case of berberine, berberine is very, very useful, especially for controlling blood glucose.

And for that, it's great.

And if you're having a low carb diet, whether that's a keto diet, carnivore, or extremely low carb, other variety, that's not going to be of additional help.

Now, there are certain cancers, particularly colorectal cancer, for which berberine in and of itself is directly useful.

But for the vast majority of other cancers, There's no real added benefit for berberine beyond the blood sugar control.

And if your diet takes care of that for you, then the berberine is an excess.

It's not going to backfire.

It's just unnecessary and potentially irritating to the lining of your intestines.

EGCG.

generally is useful it it has some utility the issue with egcg is not so much that it backfires but not taking enough and the amount of egcg that is necessary starts at about 1.6 grams and goes upward from there up to sometimes twice that 3.2 3.5 grams which again is a level that for some people can be irritating to the lining of the intestines EGCG is good in many cases.

It's good for many cancers.