Yesterday, Stefano, my smoldering blog reader now real-life friend DB and I attended the meeting with Dr. Robert Kyle (see day before yesterday’s post). I was finally able to shake his hand and thank him for his kindness and for telling me, back in 2005, that I was in the “watch and wait” category and should NOT be treated. He remembered me and was clearly very happy that I am still stable and smoldering. I think I might even have convinced him that curcumin could have had a hand in that. 
But that’s for my meeting post, not for this one.
Ah, at the meeting I also met, in the flesh!, a member of the Italian MGUS group of which I am co-administrator on Facebook. It’s so much fun meeting people that you chat or correspond with, I must say. And MF turned out to be a real hoot! Stefano, DB and I also met a couple of other people who were interested in my curcumin regimen. One, another “smolderer,” has already contacted me via the blog…and in fact, I just found out that, following the e-mail exchange we had earlier today, he has already ordered enough curcumin for the initial two-month protocol…wow, that was FAST! 
Anyway, I took copious notes, and Stefano even taped the entire meeting with his iPhone (ahhhh, technology…!), so it will take me a few days to get my thoughts organized enough to write a post.
In the meantime, it just so happens that I received a Google Alert on a new curcumin myeloma study just now. Hah! Timely! So I decided to write a quick note about that today. Here’s the link: http://goo.gl/tYa2u
Okay, so what is this? It’s another proteasome study, an in vitro AND in vivo one. Now, the big proteasome inhibitor in conventional myeloma treatment is, of course, bortezomib or Velcade. But we now know that some natural thingies also inhibit those pesky proteasomes, including curcumin (goes without saying! ) and quercetin (see my quercetin post, which I wrote last week)…Therefore, I’m always super pleased when I come across a study integrating conventional with “alternative” (I use quote marks, because I take into consideration ONLY scientifically-backed stuff, not crazy wacky cancer “cures” that have no scientific validity whatsoever…). I mean, c’mon, it doesn’t take a genius to point out that we should stop ignoring the fact that conventional and scientifically-backed natural extracts could really work together to punch our myeloma right where it hurts!!! So let’s team them up! Yeah!
Anyway, these are the bits of the abstract that I found interesting:
I’d say so, too! Hear hear!
Yesterday, Stefano, my smoldering blog reader now real-life friend DB and I attended the meeting with Dr. Robert Kyle (see day before yesterday’s post). I was finally able to shake his hand and thank him for his kindness and for telling me, back in 2005, that I was in the “watch and wait” category and should NOT be treated. He remembered me and was clearly very happy that I am still stable and smoldering. I think I might even have convinced him that curcumin could have had a hand in that.
But that’s for my meeting post, not for this one.
Ah, at the meeting I also met, in the flesh!, a member of the Italian MGUS group of which I am co-administrator on Facebook. It’s so much fun meeting people that you chat or correspond with, I must say. And MF turned out to be a real hoot! Stefano, DB and I also met a couple of other people who were interested in my curcumin regimen. One, another “smolderer,” has already contacted me via the blog…and in fact, I just found out that, following the e-mail exchange we had earlier today, he has already ordered enough curcumin for the initial two-month protocol…wow, that was FAST!
Anyway, I took copious notes, and Stefano even taped the entire meeting with his iPhone (ahhhh, technology…!), so it will take me a few days to get my thoughts organized enough to write a post.
In the meantime, it just so happens that I received a Google Alert on a new curcumin myeloma study just now. Hah! Timely! So I decided to write a quick note about that today. Here’s the link: http://goo.gl/tYa2u
Okay, so what is this? It’s another proteasome study, an in vitro AND in vivo one. Now, the big proteasome inhibitor in conventional myeloma treatment is, of course, bortezomib or Velcade. But we now know that some natural thingies also inhibit those pesky proteasomes, including curcumin (goes without saying!
) and quercetin (see my quercetin post, which I wrote last week)…Therefore, I’m always super pleased when I come across a study integrating conventional with “alternative” (I use quote marks, because I take into consideration ONLY scientifically-backed stuff, not crazy wacky cancer “cures” that have no scientific validity whatsoever…). I mean, c’mon, it doesn’t take a genius to point out that we should stop ignoring the fact that conventional and scientifically-backed natural extracts could really work together to punch our myeloma right where it hurts!!! So let’s team them up! Yeah!
Anyway, these are the bits of the abstract that I found interesting:
I’d say so, too! Hear hear!
Written by Margaret
October 21st, 2011 at 9:48 am