Dear Candice,
Welcome to the site!
It is my daughter Lori who was dx with TNBC in June of 2007. Yes I have heard/read about insulin potentiation therapy in the book Knockout. Burton Goldberg writes about it, and he published Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide. To quote him:
"The theory behind insulin potentiation therapy is that cancer grows on sugar. Insulin is used like a trojan horse to carry chemo or other natural substances into the cancer cells, therby using less toxic amounts with greater efficacy."
May I ask why they say you will be doing this for the rest of your life, especially since you have a diet which is basically the diet which every person dx with diabetes should adhere to? Are you referring to the insulin potentiation therapy only? Did you have the chemosensitivity testing done using blood work? I read in the book that they can give low-dose chemo (as little as 10-20 %) and the therapy (IPT) used in conjunction with full-body hyperthermia. This is your treatment?
We have an alternative "thread" and it is under the "Support Groups". Even though you are taking treatments now, you had refused treatments 7 years ago, and did well, so perhaps you can also post there as to what you did in Mexico? At this time the Alternative Treatments is somewhat confusing as it is not a forum, and if you don't have vertigo...you sure as heck will develop it from going back and forth to each and every post
I wish you well on treatments, and the low doses will surely not be as toxic as the ones my daughter had, and she did have Taxotere, but also Adriamycin, and Cytoxan, all 3 every 3 weeks for 6 treatments, and 28 rads. To say they did a number on her body is putting it mildly.
Please post here and on the other thread also? Oh...and may I ask your age? Lori is now 47.
Hugs,
Nancy