| Protein supplementation is important for cancer | | | | structure, and they form the molecules of life: |
| patients for several reasons, though the most | | | | DNA. Amino acids are available in your diet and |
| important is connected with appetite. People with | | | | come in the form of proteins which your digestive |
| any form of malignant condition tend to eat less. | | | | system breaks down into the amino acids you |
| This means that what they do eat should have | | | | need. Protein supplementation then becomes |
| the highest possible nutritional content. The four | | | | beneficial because concentrated protein |
| most important forms of nutrition are: | | | | supplements provide the proteins necessary to |
| Carbohydrates | | | | generate all the amino acids you need, both when |
| These can be converted to glucose and then to | | | | undergoing radiation and chemo therapies, and |
| the energy required for your vital functions, such | | | | when recovering. Radiation therapy and |
| as breathing, digestion, and circulation. You don't | | | | chemotherapy can cause nausea and make you |
| need energy only for exercise or moving around, | | | | very sick. This ruins your appetite, so that is why |
| but also to stay alive. Your metabolism uses a lot | | | | it is important for the food you do consume to |
| of energy while the body is at rest, and | | | | have a higher nutritional content. |
| carbohydrates are essential for everybody, | | | | Concentrated protein supplementation will provide |
| especially if you have some form of malignant | | | | you with the amino acids you need to maintain |
| condition. | | | | your body's biochemistry. Amino acids are the |
| Vitamins | | | | building blocks for enzymes, proteins, and DNA, |
| Vitamins are essential for life hence the Latin | | | | which all are essential for organic life, plant and |
| prefix vita which is translates to life. Without a | | | | animal. Without amino acids there would be no life |
| supply of essential vitamins your vital processes, | | | | - at least not as we know it on earth. By taking |
| including your immune system, would gradually | | | | protein supplements cancer patients have a |
| shut down. Fortunately, there are supplements | | | | better chance of recovery because they have a |
| that can be taken to compensate for any | | | | higher nutritional intake which provides the ability |
| deficiency in your diet. | | | | to maintain their strength and withstand their |
| Minerals | | | | treatment and condition. If you suffer from any |
| Minerals are also essential components of your | | | | form of malignant tumor, you should take a |
| body's biochemistry. In order for your body to | | | | concentrated protein supplementation because |
| work properly you also need minerals such as | | | | doing so will enable you to receive necessary |
| calcium and a good supply of trace elements such | | | | vitamins and minerals while still allowing you to |
| as chromium and vanadium. This is true whether | | | | consume carbohydrates needed to provide the |
| you are a cancer patient or not. Many vitamins | | | | energy for your life processes. A protein |
| cannot do their jobs without minerals to help | | | | supplement in a concentrated form is easier to |
| them. | | | | take, will provide less nausea, and will aid you both |
| Amino Acids | | | | in your treatment and your subsequent recovery. |
| Amino acids are the building blocks of life. They | | | | NOTE: It is important that cancer patients inform |
| form the proteins that enable organic life to exist, | | | | their doctors or physicians of any form of protein |
| they are involved in every life process and bodily | | | | supplementation they are taking. |