Well my grandpa is 70 and has been on chemotherapy for a while. Hes finding that he has very little appitite and if he forces himself to eat he throws it right back up.
Here is an email I sent him regarding supplements he should consider, if anyone has any input/sugestions in general feel free to add anything.
Some of my descriptions may have been fague or evena little off but the goal was to give him the general idea. Thanks in advance
http://www.T-Nation.com/onlineStore.jsp
From this website there should be a couple of things that you should buy. It may seem to be a little expensive but its well worth it. This company has best quality of products that I have found, and their price is actually lower than others, in comparison to places like GNC.
Some things you may be interested in are
Metabolic Drive Super Protein shake
Metabolic Drive Complete
Micronized German creatine
Flameout
The first two products are simply powdered food. The difference is that the Metabolic Drive Complete contains some carbohydrates and is used more as a meal replacement. Although, the Metabolic Drive tends to taste a lot better, and theres a lot more things you can do with it to make it tasty.
What you should do to add some calories is throw a few scoops of the powdered food into a blender with some water, and add other things that are very calorie dense such as peanut butter, different types of oil, etc. By mixing three scoops of protein, 2-3 spoonfuls of peanut butter, and a tablespoon of olive oil and you have a 1000 calorie drink you can sip durring the day. I’ll look up some recipes for you that are supposed to taste pretty good, but I havn’t tried most of them.
The micronized german creatine is really cheap for its uses. You will probably want to take about 5 grams or 1.5 scoops of it in some sugary juice. Doing this spikes your insulin and helps you to absorb the creatine. There are basically no side effects of creatine and you could probably take 5 grams daily for the rest of your life with no consequences aside from better health.
The first two products are simplified food, and creatine helps prevent muscle deterioration, and promotes growth. Its has been used to help treat muscular sclerosis.
Flameout is a very high quality fish oil supplement. The benefits of fish oil are countless. With this, the more the better. I would start by taking at least the recommended dose, and increase as much as you’d like.
Heres just a quick link for some of the things fish oil helps
http://ezinearticles.com/?7-Fish-Oil-Benefits-Proven-by-Research&id=415032
Those are things that are probably essential to you, the next few products should also be considered.
Biotest Superfood
Any form of Spike
Alpha Male
A quick rundown
Superfood is basically a powderized form of all the neat little things that fruit and vegetables give you, all the vitamins, antioxidants blah blah. I haven’t tried it yet, but I wouldn’t doubt it’s a good product.
Personally I built a tolerance to Spike almost instantly, I don’t know why. For the week or two that it actually worked it was great. It’s a stimulant with almost no negative consequences, no jitters, no horrible comedown, none of the things you’d expect from any other stimulant. When it did work for me the days that I took it I felt on top of the world and ready to handle any problem. The physical and mental clarity it brings are simply amazing.
Alpha Male is a testosterone booster, quite simply it has things in it that stimulate your endocrine system to produce testosterone on its own. Its very very helpful in older individuals.
There are threads on what people have found to be good protein shake recipes (you may need to register to view it but I don’t get any spam from registering).
http://www.T-Nation.com/tmagnum/readTopic.do?id=1646112
http://www.T-Nation.com/readArticle.do?id=460531