"You are what you eat" - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Get as much fresh fruit and fresh vegetables into your diet as you can, especially leafy greens and berries. Yes, "fresh" does mean bought raw, unprocessed.

Try to stay away from chemicals like pesticides and weed killers, these leave residues on and in the vegetables and stress the human body. Some chemicals are tremendously harmful to humans and some even cause or stimulate genetic damage. On the chemical front, eliminate flavoured drinks and reduce your consumption of spices that contain artificial flavour enhancers and preservatives (MSG is bad for you, salt is OK).

Reduce your consumption of red meat. If you’re like me and you love meat, then replace as much of your meat consumption as you can with fish. To reduce your chemical consumption, try to get fish caught in the wild or organically farmed.

Absolutely cut out all highly processed food, like frozen ready meals, and stay away from typical fast food, like hotdogs, burgers and pizza.

Get yourself a high-power food processor/mixer/blender, like the NutriBullet, and replace at least one meal a day with this smoothie:

The Cancer-Fighting Smoothie

• ½ Tomato, or a few cherry tomatoes
• ½ Avocado, flesh only, can occasionally be replaced with one banana instead
• ½ Apple, can occasionally be a mango instead (flesh only)
• 1 Handful of spinach or broccoli
• 1 Clove garlic
• ½ Lemon, peeled
• ½ Cup raspberries (occasionally goji berries instead)
• ¼ Cup walnuts or pecan nuts
• 1 Heaped teaspoon turmeric powder (see note)
• 1 Pinch of pepper (helps the body to absorb the turmeric)

Note on Turmeric (Kurkuma): It is bitter. That's the main reason I add the lemon. If you find that adding turmeric to the smoothie makes it unappetising, then you can try it in a little sour yoghurt instead. Many people prefer drinking it suspended in a glass of warm milk. In any case, always add pepper, without which the absorption rate is only about 3%. And remember to be careful as turmeric stains everything it touches.

Note: The smoothie gives your body a fructose shock, so it should be drunk in short sips over an extended period, approximately as long as it would have taken you to chew and eat the ingredients themselves.

The smoothie is also for when you are too tired to eat or when you have no appetite. Radio-chemotherapy often results in fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting. This smoothie is much easier to consume than food and it's absorbed by the body more efficiently than solid food.

Additional Nutrients and Tips

• Generally prefer a Mediterranean diet
• 1.5 to 2 litres of fluid per day, more when you exercise (beer counts, but coffee does not)
• Propolis (bee glue) dissolved in strong alcohol (like 70% or 96% ethyl alcohol), 1 teaspoon of solution daily (can be 1g of propolis powder in yoghurt instead, but alcohol solution is absorbed better by the body)
• 1 soup spoon of fresh broccoli sprouts per day, about five days per week, can be eaten with your food or even added to the smoothie (I grow my own since these are hard to find where I live, probably because of their short lifespan)
• European blueberry, a.k.a. bilberry (Heidelbeere)
• If you've stopped eating and are pretty much only on the smoothie then you need fibre and ballast in your diet, so 2 tablespoons of proso millet (Braunhirse) per day in yoghurt or muesli is a great idea, can even be added to the smoothie
• If you've stopped eating and are pretty much only on the smoothie then you need protein, so have 2 teaspoons casein per day in the morning yoghurt or muesli or in the smoothie. Casein is a slow release amino acid.
• 3 to 4 freshly brewed coffees per day, e.g. espresso (the smell of freshly brewed coffee seems to help fight cancer)
• 2 or more days per week without red meat (fish or fowl instead, but watch out for chemicals and antibiotics)
• Curries are good but MSG (monosodium glutamate) is bad, so Chinese food is often not OK
• As little reprocessed food as possible, and stay away from frozen meals (e.g. frozen lasagne)

Note on Broccoli Sprouts: Consumption of fresh broccoli sprouts seems to have very powerful benefits for the human body. It seems to aid detoxification. Indeed, eating fresh broccoli sprouts frequently seems to counteract chemicals so well that it is advisable to wait until the end of radio-chemotherapy before adding these to your diet.

Note on Aspirin: Many doctors today warn against taking aspirin, but just as many doctors seem to support low daily dose aspirin. There are cancer studies regarding the benefits of low-dose aspirin, but these seem to be inconclusive. I take about 250mg daily. You decide for yourself. Absolutely do not take aspirin if you have low blood pressure, are taking any blood thinning medication or suffer from poor blood clotting.

Note on Chemotherapy: It is awfully poisonous in almost all cases and your liver and kidneys are going to have a very hard time, both during and for quite a long time after the therapy. You can help by eating a couple of artichoke hearts daily and by reducing your alcohol consumption or eliminating it entirely. Obviously you can take liver tonic supplements, but artichokes do the job just as well.