Kitchen sink radiotherapy protection

To review our method in complementing radiotherapy. I hope it makes radiotherapy more effective at killing cancer cells, whilst protecting healthy cells from radiotherapy:

1) We believe NHS advice may not always be right.......easy after yesterday's news on beta blockers killing 800,000.

2) We choose a french book based on an attractive cover photo of an orange. It has now been translated!

3) We listen to an mp3 of the author, he has a delightful french accent so must be honest and correct. Another mp3 based on his ideas is here

4) Page 177 of his book shows curcumin and green tea enhancing the effect of radiotherapy.

5) Research shows curcumin is the active ingredient of tumeric, an Indian spice.

6) Knowing nothing of Indian cooking, we scramble an egg with tumeric, and wonder why we get unpalatable yellow molten blobs on the egg. Jan eats two such eggs anyway, we are desperate.

7) We read that curcumin is oil soluble, so our second attempt is to dissolve tumeric in olive oil, and scramble egg in that. Better results.

8) We read that tumeric is not absorbed easily in the body, it needs piperine, the ingredient of black pepper to aid absorption.

9) I buy Holland and Barrett tumeric capsules, open them up over the sink, throw away 20% of the tumeric, replace it with black pepper and reseal the capsule.

Jan refuses this concoction.....and the kitchen worktop is stained yellow.....

BUT in looking at recent US patents I find that that is almost exactly what a US guy has just patented as a potential cancer drug. He uses sunflower oil instead of my olive oil, and adds an antioxidant. But otherwise we are on the same lines.....Another similar patent is dated 2007.

So after long days and nights of research I think I may have stumbled upon a lead........the patent applications prove that, and in the meantime I created the best tasting sea food curry I have ever had.......shame Jan does not like curry. The links above are the popularist ones, I also used learned university papers.

On reading the patent applications I have two emotions, I feel physically sick that rats can be paralysed by 25 Gy radiation, when Jan will receive about twice that dose. The NHS do not warn one so explicitly, they merely mention the slight risk of neuropathy, and one patient lost sight. They don't dare to say some get paralysed, and one went blind! It strengthens my views on animal experimentation. Should we deny animal rights activists any drug developed by this means?

We also use other protective measures such as sunlight (natural vitamin D), exercise, balanced healthy diet of veg rather than meat, green tea, organic eggs, carrots, grapes, onions, cabbage, mushrooms, seaweed as mentioned in the Guardian, garlic which seems to be powerful and plenty of fluids as further protection. I guess from the research and patent application that this diet is most important now and for say a month after radiotherapy, as it controls the inflamation.

I wish I had more time to look at NASA research, I suspect they will be good on radio-protection, as it is a risk they encounter during space travel. But Jan's radiotherapy started 10 days ago, we go with what we know already. The one NASA hit I found was from an oncologist with a sense of humour. He summarised his work as "World Death Rate Holding Steady at 100%. No matter how hard we work, there are some things we simply can't fix."