Did you see the show? "The secrets to longer and healthier lives: Join Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Lance Armstrong, Oprah Winfrey's trainer Bob Greene and Deepak Chopra. Watch tonight, 9 p.m. ET...

LOVED it! Information packed with male-language subtitles. I joke. The guests were all very elegant in their delivery - compelling, well versed and down to earth.

I really enjoyed the non-emotional, matter of fact, science based approach to living healthy they all seem to possess. It was refreshing.

I can't see any of them going through life worrying about what their butts look like in their jeans or beating themselves up because they had whole milk in their coffee. I'm just saying there's a lesson in there...

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Originally posted by BrenauMom:

The cancer I had in 1999 usually returns in a year or sometimes less so my transplant was an effort to reduce the chance of the cancer returning. Apparently it worked because I have been in remission since May 2000. 7 years!!!

BrenauMom,

Congratulations on the successful remission of the cancer. I hope it doesn't return ever.



Serene

Thanks, Linda. I caught it last night and really enjoyed the conversation.

I noticed that one of them (Sanjay?) is advocating 7 "colors" a day. I used to hear 5 a day, but am now hearing 7 and 9 a day. I'm going to keep working to keep 5 a minimum. With summer coming, I find it easeier to get up to 6-7 a day.

I was shocked to know Bob Greene is will be 50 in a couple months! I would have guessed him 10 years younger.

This IS the show which will be re-run tonight, Saturday April 14. It will be on 3 times 9 p.m., midnight and 3 a.m. EDT.

Linda

Larry King reruns his best show of the week on Saturday evenings. Hopefully, his producers will think this episode was the 'best' one.

It wouldn't hurt to tune in Friday, either, to see if they start the reruns early. But Saturday - definitely.

I saw, at midnight, who was on the show, but I had a hectic day and decided NOT to watch the show.

I DO know that King runs two re-runs on Saturday and Sunday nights - one each night. This might make a good one to be rerun next weekend. It will probably be on the website by Friday.

This might be a case of letter writing could turn things your way, although I don't really know. It's at least a try.

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/

Linda

Lance Armstrong is a hero in this house. For awhile, his picture was the only one that adorned by son's walls....he still supports his foundation and herald's his work. What a great, normal role model.

A portion of the transcript of the Larry King show:
[…]
KING: Sanjay, tell me about stem cells. I know you went to the Soviet -- to Russia, the former Soviet.

GUPTA: Yes.

KING: And found some extraordinary things, or were they -- was that not true?

GUPTA: Well, it is extraordinary.

First of all, there's all these people out there that are injecting themselves with stem cells on a pretty regular basis. And they feel that they have not only been able to stop aging. They believe they're able to reverse it, to actually turn aging in the other direction. It's very hard to...
[…]
(talking about Larry King’s birthday)
[…]
No, but you can't validate this stuff. It's illegal in Russia, although much -- there's a blind eye turned towards it. And, so, it's hard to study that stuff in Russia. But I think stem cells, there is some potential in the future of having the cell that can sort of rejuvenate broken or damaged cells in your body.

KING: Is it obvious, Deepak, that stem cells are an important part of our health future?

CHOPRA: For our future, but a lot of clinics in Mexico and Europe are just injecting stem cells.
[…]


I found the transcript was very interesting. I wish I had seen the show. I was especially interested in what he said about people injecting themselves with stem cells. That is basically what a bone marrow transplant is. My transplant was Nov 10, 2000. I sometimes say that is my second “birthday”. When you hear about a transplant you think of organs like a liver or a kidney being taken from a donor and given to a recipient thru a surgical procedure. A bone marrow transplant is done with a blood transfusion not thru surgery. If you have ever broken a chicken bone or eaten Osso Bucco (sp?) you have seen the marrow in the center of the bone. This marrow is the “factory” where our blood cells are created and is the home of our stem cells. The marrow donor (in this case it was me, I was my own donor) is given medicine that causes stem cells to leave the marrow and enter the blood stream. The stem cells are then filtered out of the blood and frozen until needed. They usually harvest enough stem cells to do two or three transplants in case one fails. We tried this two or three times but in my case, whether from the severity of the cancer I had had (non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma) or the strength of the chemo necessary to defeat it (& it was defeated or I could not have been my own donor), there were never enough stem cells in my blood for them to harvest so I did have to have surgery for them to poke holes in my butt and draw out some of my bone marrow from my pelvis bones. From this they were able to harvest enough stem cells for just one transplant. I was then given a very high dose of chemo (in pills) that killed off ALL of my bone marrow rendering my body totally incapable of making ANY blood at all. Then I was given a transfusion which included the stem cells. After that I received a blood transfusion daily for a week or two while the stem cells that had been in the first transfusion migrated into my hollow bones and “set up housekeeping” in order to grow bone marrow. As my body started producing a tiny bit of blood on its own (as indicated by constant blood tests) the transfusions were reduced to every other day for a while and then every third day until it became once a week. From there I progressed to every 2 weeks, then 3 weeks, etc, etc. Every week I would go in for a blood test and depending on what the numbers were I would either go to the hospital for a transfusion (takes about 4 to 6 hours) or I would not. I had gotten to where I could usually tell by the way I was feeling if I was going to need a transfusion or not. By the end of 2002 I was up to 8 weeks between transfusions. April 2003 was my last transfusion but of course I did not know that until 8 weeks later when the blood test showed I did not need a transfusion yet. Week 9, no transfusion. Week 10, nope. By week 11 we had pretty much decided that I had finally gotten over the hump. At the end of 2003, when I had my yearly biopsy, my bone marrow was almost completely grown back in. At the end of 2004 it was completely grown back in. Before the transplant in 2000 the doctor told me that it would take about 9 months to a year for it to grow back in completely. It only took me an extra 3 years! The numbers on the blood counts were still low and not in the normal range so I continued to have blood tests but gradually progressed until I was only going for a test every other month. In February of this year my doctor said all of my counts were all normal. They were still low but were within the normal range, no more blood tests. He did not completely release me; I have to go back in August and then again in February of next year. Until then it is up to me to contact him if I have any problems. The cancer I had in 1999 usually returns in a year or sometimes less so my transplant was an effort to reduce the chance of the cancer returning. Apparently it worked because I have been in remission since May 2000. 7 years!!!

Did not see the show but the couple that dd works for as a nanny are family friends with Sanjay Gupta. In fact she just missed spending spending this week in Charleston with her boss and Gupta's wife and daughter. Her boss was too busy to go.

Found the link to the written transcript:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/09/lkl.01.html

Wish I had seen it : (