Where can myeloma patients find trusted information on herbs and supplements? So I think one thing is to again, find if you're somebody who really believes very strongly in wanting to do these alternative sources of supplements or vitamins, finding a good expert like an integrated medicine doctor or a naturopath who you can trust and is vetted well from others would be a good option to basically go through and meet with regularly.
So they can adjust the doses based on symptoms. But another way is also, if you want to just read more about supplements, is to go to a website and an app on the phone called about herbs. And this app is actually through Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center so the Integrative Medicine Service here has developed this app and they keep it up to date pretty well.
And in that they have literally almost all the common supplements that patients use, but they have information for patients and then information for health care providers. But it's available to everybody where they'll go over and summarize what the evidence, what's the side effect profile, what the potential benefits of taking it and things and what are the drug interactions.
So that's something you can look at to make sure that you don't have a drug interaction when you are taking it or what the benefit might be and what is the data behind which it's telling you that there might be a benefit. So, is this worth something you want to spend money? I think the main thing which supplements is the cost, right?
Like you're spending out of pocket a lot of money on something that is not clear, that it's definitely having a benefit. And I think that that's where studies done, you know, through the HealthTree Foundation and other organizations like this can empower patients where we can actually study them and understand because otherwise there aren't really studies happening in this area.
HealthTree • April 21, 2025