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[cousineg]

A liltle survey to determine if drinking coffee help to fight CML:

  

How Much Coffee Do You Drink Daily?

Are you PCRU (PCR undectable)? How long?

When do you take your medication (Gleevec or else)? When do you take coffee?

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Coffee contains hundreds of components including substantial amounts of chlorogenic acid, caffeine, magnesium,
potassium, vitamin B3, trigonelline, and lignans. ...

Mechanisms which might contribute to a possible anticarcinogenic effect include reduction in cholesterol, bile acid and neutral sterol secretion in the colon, increased colonic motility and reduced exposure of epithelium to carcinogens, the ability of diterpenes to reduce genotoxicity of carcinogens, and lower DNA adduct formation, and the ability of caffeic acid and chlorogenic acid to decreased DNA methylation....

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See Chlorogenic acid inhibits Bcr-Abl tyrosine kinase and triggers p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase-dependent apoptosis in chronic myelogenous leukemic cells.

[Badger]

Great! All I have to do is drink coffee and eat wheat grass and I can ditch the Tasigna!

[mariebow]

Badger you know it. lol

[ChrisC]

Yummm, I have one cup of coffee here at home in the morning. Sometimes made by using a French Press, sometimes by espresso machine, sometimes by stovetop stainless steel espresso maker, sometimes by ceramic Melitta drip with unbleached filter: all from fresh, locally roasted, Fair Trade, dark roast beans, ground at home (friends own a local coffee roasting company, and they also supply three local Whole Foods stores with these same beans — very handy!). It is indeed the little things in life that bring one joy, and we bring our joy to it, too! We all have our areas of appreciation, and I am glad that good coffee is available. (I have had very good luck shopping the resale stores for used coffee equipment: never spent more than $7.00 for any of these excellent coffee makers!)

There are questions re the benefits from drinking coffee that entirely filters out the fine particles, and those that don't, so I vary the equipment and enjoy each one

Oh yeah: I became PCRU within 11 months of dx, have been PCRU for just over three years, and have been entirely off my TKI (Sprycel, after being intolerant of Gleevec) for just over one year.

It works for me!

ChrisC

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[scuba]

... and just when you thought coffee might be good for you, this comes out:

http://www.theatlant...laucoma/263254/

(I still enjoy my 3 cups of Italian dark roast every day)

[NotJack?]

Hey Badger,

I know that my source is not as reliable a source as the internet, but I asked an experienced bartender if a pint of Guinness a day could cure CML, and he said that he wouldn't be surprised!!  So feel free to add that to your holistic intake,  I know that I will.

[cousineg]

Thank you Scuba for this article about glaucoma with coffee. In this article, I noted this passage:

''That was corroborated by knowledge that caffeine affects levels of homocysteine in our eyes, and that homocysteine levels are often high in people with EG (exfoliation glaucoma)''

So we have to reduce the caffeine and increase the chlorogenic acid.

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Evaluation of caffeine in coffee

A moderate dose of caffeine is 200-300 mg a day. Here's a good gauge to measure your caffeine intake: a cup of coffee has 100-200 mg, a cup of tea has 40-120 mg and a soda has 20-80 mg.

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The green coffee bean supplement has only around 20 mg of caffeine per serving, whereas your daily cup of coffee has over 100 mg (and your "venti drip" has as much as 400 mg). Green coffee bean is not a stimulant; it doesn't make you jittery and nervous and raise your heart rate like roasted coffee or ephedra. In fact, the green coffee bean has actually been shown in some studies to help lower blood pressure -- while still boosting metabolism.

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[everonward]

The only thing coffee does for me these days is increase the shart attack.  I still have the occasional espresso caus I love it but boy do I know about it afterwards

[Antilogical]

Oh, dear.  If I had to choose, I'd choose the coffee, sharts and all.  I'm sure that my "real" friends would stick by me, albeit outdoors and upwind.....

:-)

[Badger]

Jack,

I immediately took your advise and downed a point, and then another just to be on the safe side. Don't know what it did for my cml, but it did make me forget that I had it (at least for a while).

Thanks for the advise.

[NotJack?]

There have been many studies, and many a masters thesis on the benefits of a good pint of Guinness.  Here are several justifications for imbibing in the ruby colored elixer -- (just in case you needed the excuse) : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3266819.stm      and    http://bogerk.hubpag...ss-Good-For-You     Bottoms up!! 

[Susan61]

HI:  I have been a very heavy coffee drinker since I was a teenager, and still love my coffee to this day.  I drink it morning, afternoon, and some evenings with my husband before he goes into work for his night shift.  The only problem I have had is with the night coffee that keeps me up watching Jay Leno at 11:30, and having trouble falling asleep.  I have not had a GERD problem as long as I take my Nexium.

    Who knows what anything does to us in a positive or negative way anymore.  Glad to see your sense of humor Billie, as I still think that is the best form of medicine we could all use to cure whatever ails us.

Susan