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Florida Foodie: Oncologist shares how a plant-based diet can help cancer patients administrator 4 بازدیدها • پیش 2 سال ها

Dr. Amber Orman likes to practice what she calls “true healthcare.”

She is a radiation oncologist and also a prac****ioner of lifestyle medicine “which is using food and movement, the way that you feel stress the way that you sleep, your relationships and your use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs, to really change your life in a positive way,” according to Orman.

Orman takes that practice into the HEAL Program at AdventHealth. HEAL stands for Healthy Eating Active Lifestyle. Orman started the program with Dr. Nathalie McKenzie, a gynecologic oncologist.

The HEAL program shows cancer patients ways they can change their lifestyles to improve their overall health and help them recover from their diagnosis.

Part of the core of the HEAL program is encouraging patients to consume a diet that is at least majority plant-based.

Part of the reason for encouraging a plant dominant diet is because plants provide something that animal products cannot, fiber.

“Fiber is only in plants,” she said. “So when we’re eating fiber, that is what our gut microbiome needs to be happy.”

Orman explained that your gut microbiome is “a po****tion of bacteria in your gut, that is absolutely central to many processes in your body.”

“So when this po****tion of organisms in your gut is happy because they’ve been eating a lot of fiber, the global level of inflammation in your body is lower, and your immune system is functioning in a better way,” the doctor said. “When our immune system is functioning in a better way, it can pick off little cancer cells that are floating around in our body from time to time — because that is the case, we always have a cancer cell or two roaming around that our body is designed to take those out so that it doesn’t land in breast tissue or the pancreas and grow to become a tumor that we find and diagnose and treat.”

In addition to fiber, plants also provide phytonutrients.

“Phytonutrients, again, are substances only in plants,” Orman said. “One subset of a phytonutrient is an antioxidant. And they’re anti-inflammatory — they’re just very good for our body. They run around kind of repairing damage and preventing damage.”

In the latest episode of Florida Foodie, Orman shares more about HEAL and the improvements she has seen in her patients as a result of the program. She also shares more about the benefits of a plant-dominant diet for overall health and what changes people can make to begin improving their nutrition.

Please follow our Florida Foodie hosts on social media. You can find Candace Campos on Twitter and Facebook. Lisa Bell is also on Facebook and Twitter and you can check out her children’s book, “Norman the Watchful Gnome.”

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Nutrition in Pancreatic Cancer administrator 3 بازدیدها • پیش 2 سال ها

Dr. Michael Pishvaian discusses the various nutritional issues that can be present in many pancreatic cancer patients. A nutritionist can help develop a plan to reduce digestive complaints caused by pancreatic cancer, including diet changes or the introduction of the prescription pancreatic enzyme drug called CREON.
More videos: https://ruesch.georgetown.edu/rueschreels

Transcript:
I want to address nutrition for patients with pancreatic cancer. The pancreas sits in a very delicate place in the abdomen, and actually, the pancreas is critical for releasing enzymes into the intestinal tract to help digest food, so it's not surprising at all that patients with pancreatic cancer have significant digestive and nutritional issues, including frequent abdominal discomfort, bloating, g****iness, diarrhea. These are all symptoms of the tumor itself compressing the pancreatic duct, preventing the juices from flowing into the intestine. There are also symptoms of the pancreas tumor sitting on some critical blood vessels and some critical nerve endings within the abdomen.

It's been my practice to really incorporate our nutritionist to help us manage the nutrition for patients of pancreatic cancer. It's very important that patients keep their calories up, which is often much, much easier said than done because patients don't feel like eating, the chemotherapy makes their food taste bad. Even the cancer itself, even without the chemotherapy, can make their food taste bad as well. Coaching patients through the idea of trying to decide which foods work best for them is often very important.

I have had patients tell me that ****y foods are the only thing they can tolerate, and I've had other patients tell me that they can't stand ****y foods, and only salty foods or sugary foods are what they can tolerate. What I would advise is that find what works best for you allows you to keep your calories up high enough, and if it's available to you to try and meet with a nutritionist to try and discuss what other options are out there.

One thing that is specific, and it's a medication, but there's a medication called CREON, or there are other versions of CREON. What this drug is, it's synthetic pancreatic enzymes that are taken with the meal and basically are replacing the body's ability to release the pancreatic enzymes in the intestine. These ingested enzymes help to break down food so that it doesn't lead to the diarrhea and the bloating that a pancreatic cancer patient cl****ically get.

Now, these drugs are not necessarily effective for all patients, but I have had some patients benefit dramatically, so it's certainly worth trying.

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