Recently Diagnosed or Relapsed? Stop Looking For a Miracle Cure, and Use Evidence-Based Therapies To Enhance Your Treatment and Prolong Your Remission
Multiple Myeloma an incurable disease, but I have spent the last 25 years in remission using a blend of conventional oncology and evidence-based nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle therapies from peer-reviewed studies that your oncologist probably hasn't told you about.
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The standard-of-care (SOC) MM therapy (RVD, ASCT, etc.) is designed to take MM patients with bone involvement or the usual symptoms of advanced newly diagnosed MM (NDMM) and stabilize them- return them to relatively normal health.
Frankly, figuring out how to normalize the health of stage 2 or 3 MM patients is a tremendous achievement. An achievement that will last as long as the NDMM patient’s PFS aka first remission lasts. Then MM survival get’s complicated…
Unfortunately, if you are not the average patient or if you have relapsed aka no longer in your first remission, standard-of-care MM therapies can be:
Too much toxicity
Cause organ damage
Become refractory- no longer kill your MM
Let me be more specific.
Too much toxicity-
If you have been diagnosed with pre-MM or early stage MM- a single plasmycytoma of bone, MGUS or SMM, undergoing SOC therapy will often reduce your quality of life (think short, long-term and late stage side effects) and speed you toward multi-drug resistance (MDR).
All chemotherapy regimens eventually stop working. Oncology knows this.
What is the NDMM patient or relapsed MM survivor supposed to do? What is your solution? The solution to too much toxicity is to not undergo toxic therapies and to undergo therapies such as anti-angiogenic nutrition, supplementation and lifestyle therapies that have been shown to fight MM.
Curcumin is non-toxic.
The solution to the prospect of organ damage is to take one or more supplements that research has shown will protect organs.
Curcumin protects organs.
The solution to your MM becoming refractor or resistant to chemotherapy is to add evidence-based, integrative therapy to your chemotherapy regimens.
Curcumin integrates with thalidomide, revlimid, velcade, and more.
CU enhances Velcade/Bortezomib “Curcumin Circumvents Chemoresistance in vitro and Potentiates the Effect of Thalidomide and Bortezomib against Human Multiple Myeloma in Nude Mice Model”(5)
CU enhances Thalidomide “Researchers from VCU recently found that, when combined with molecules from thalidomide, turmeric/curcumin is capable of targeting and killing multiple myeloma cells naturally.(6)
CU enhances Revlimid/lenalidomide “Curcumin enhances the cytotoxic and chemo-sensitising effects of lenalidomide in human multiple myeloma cells (7)
CU enhances Carfilzomib “ Cell viability data showed that curcumin significantly ameliorates CFZ cytotoxic effect.” (8)
Multi-Organ Protection:
Bone: “Bone Health: Curcumin and Osteoporosis” (9)
Kidney: “Curcumin – A promising nutritional strategy for chronic kidney disease patients” (10)
Heart: “Curcumin Protects Against Heart Disease: New Research” (11)
Bone Marrow: “Preventive Effect of Curcumin Against Chemotherapy-Induced Side-Effects” (12)
Brain Health- “Turmeric & the Brain: Benefits of Curcumin” (13)
Branding and dosing depends largely on the patient, stage, therapies, etc. I take Life Extension Foundation Curcumin Elite, 500mg daily Many with active MM take 2,4,6,8 GRAMS (1000 milligrams = 1 gram) of curcumin daily. There are several formulas that are bio enhanced meaning more curcumininoids get into the person’s blood stream.
Hi Dave
I am a MM survivor (20 years this coming May).
I am interested to learn more about the dosage of curcumin.
Where can I get this information?
Thanks in advance.
JP
The studies about curcumin vary. Most say “in a dose and time dependent manner.” Meaning, the more, the longer, the more effective. I’ve read a couple of studies (not myeloma) that specifically dose 4 grams and 8 grams- remember 1000 milligrams equals one gram.
Somewhat frustrating but this is the nature of non-conventional therapy research like curcumin.
If you’d like to do your own research into this issue, simply search “curcumin myeloma,” or “curcumin pancreatic cancer,” etc.
