4 Tips For Fighting Liver Cancer

Liver Cancer is a terrible and relentless disease. If you have recently been diagnosed or fear the worst, here are some basic tips in beginning your fight with liver cancer.

Step 1: Eliminate sugar.
If a cancerous tumor is a deadly "fire" in your body, then the sugar in your diet is like gasoline. Cancer cells feed on simple sugars, but there's more to the story than that. Sugar causes the body to release growth-promoting hormones as well as insulin when the blood sugar level spikes. Since simple sugars are bad (and found in sweets like soda, candy or other juice drinks) doesn't that mean there are good sugars, too?

Yes! complex sugars, also known as complex carbohydrates, are needed for survival as well since they contain essential vitamins, minerals, proteins and fibers. Stick to fruit, vegetables and grains for cancer-fighting diets.

Step 2: Reduce Sodium Intake:
Many liver cancer patients have pre-existing cirrhosis of the liver as well, which is a scarring of the tissues that cause many more complications.
One of the worst symptoms is Ascites and/or Edema. Ascites is the swelling of the abdomen, and heavy fluid-retention, whereas Edema is the swelling of the feet, ankles and legs, and is generally pitted. These conditions should be treated with diuretics, however, consuming excess sodium in your diet will reduce the effectiveness of the diuretics and can cause further or prolonged swelling, which is very dangerous. Prolonged swelling can lead to strokes, heart attacks and rupturing of veins.

Step 3: Stop Drinking:
If your cirrhosis and subsequent liver cancer was brought on by alcoholism, then this may be very difficult. However, great discipline and strength of mind is needed within all liver cancer fighters. If the liver is impaired or compromised in terms of it's efficiency, then adding alcohol to the body will only further exacerbate the problem. As the liver weakens, it becomes unable to process and rid itself of alcohol. These toxins will be recycled into the bloodstream, where they can only cause further damage as opposed to being filtered and excreted in an otherwise healthy body.


Step 4: Change Your Diet:
Odds are, your diet may have be a large reason for the disease. In cases of alcohol abuse, fatty liver disease brought on by obesity, etc, the diet has a high correlation of leading to liver and other auto-immune diseases.
There are many diet protocols out there for liver cancer such as:

1.  Budwig Diet
2. Raw Food (vegetable & fruits)
3. Concord Grape Diet

Do your own homework and make your own decisions on what will work best for you. I've found combining portions of certain protocols to be most effective.