Hi peacefulpete. That is too bad you have cancer.
A few days ago I came very close to death.
Starting nearly two weeks I began having profuse bleeding from an undetermined location in my intestinal tract. I eventually went to the ER section of a hospital. Over the course of more than a week (starting a few days before the hospital visit) my hemoglobin levels dropped rapidly to 5.7 gm/dl (14 gm/dl is the normal level for men, according to doctors I spoke to). The doctors warned that it put me in a very very dangerous situation and I noticed (while in the hospital) that my pulse became extremely high when I would stand up. I also passed out during one day before before going to the hospital, and I passed out during one day while at the hospital while taking a laxative to flush out my digestive tract). I had resisted blood transfusions for days and I had opted for other kinds of infusions and received the alternative infusions/injections, but the alternatives by themselves were not enough to save me.
In order to save my life and my health I accepted two transfusions of packed red blood cells. I did not tell my JW family (nor any other JWs, not even the JW elders I talked to about alternative treatments) that I accepted them, but I told my mother and the elders that the doctors on multiple times urged me to take a transfusion of red blood cells. The doctors said it was the best treatment and had lower risk than the alternatives. I felt much better very soon after each of the two transfusions. The bleeding stopped and my hemoglobin count went up dramatically. I went home two nights ago. The donor blood was very carefully matched with samples of my blood for compatibility and tested with it see if it would case any adverse reactions. [The doctors said that is now the standard procedure before giving a transfusion.] The donor blood tested safe in the lab, and knowledge of that greatly contributed to me accepting it.
My mother doesn't want me to tell her if I accepted a blood transfusion. She and the elders also had told me it my decision to make. My sister told me an elder (one whom I had talked to) told her I made the right decision. The two elders were very nice to me. I thus don't anticipate getting disassociated. I do need to avoid telling (for the rest of my life) every co-worker of mine at work (and every personal acquaintance) that I took it, since one of them (including people I meet in the future) might be a JW.
Fortunately while was an independent minded Christian (years ago), I had concluded that the WT was scripturally wrong in concluding that transfusions of human blood (extracted from a willing human donor) are wrong. If I had not learned that the WT position on transfusions of whole blood and of red blood cells was scripturally wrong (if I had remained a believer in Jehovah and the Bible), then I would have turned down the life saving transfusions I had this month and thus I would very likely be dead by now (or end up suffering very serious organ damage).
Regarding Pterostilbene I read about it hours ago today at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29210129/ . The article is called "Effect of resveratrol and pterostilbene on aging and longevity - PubMed". I am might take it. In fact I might even already be taking it. That is because the Trans-Resveratrol supplement I am taking also includes Polyphenols from red wine extract, and Pterostilbene is a Polyphenol.
Sinclair says that a tremendously higher percentage of Resveratrol is absorbed when it is taken with fat, compared to when it is not taken with fat. He says he takes with yogurt in the morning. Research I read says that Trans-Resveratrol is more absorbed than cis-Resveratrol (the primary kind of Resveratrol).
I am thinking about taking a vitamin K2 supplement (besides the multti-vitamin multimineral supplement I already take, which has a tiny amount of vitamin K in it).
