How do you prepare your body for chemotherapy? what can i do to build up my strength and prepare for chemotherapy and radiation?

Good : Good nutrition is a mainstay for building strength to get through cancer treatment. During the treatment, it can be hard to maintain nutrition because nausea, painful swallowing, or loss of appetite may result from the treatment. It can be helpful to try to eat small frequent meals, rather than 3 large ones, each day if the appetite is really reduced. There are numerous liquid nutritional supplements that can be taken, also. A dietician can help a patient identify which one would be best for that particular individual. The second major intervention to maintain strength and avoid deconditioning during chemotherapy or radiation is a sensible exercise program. Patients think that if they are tired during chemotherapy that they should rest a lot. While rest is certainly needed to some extent, there are numerous studies that have demonstrated that cancer patients undergoing therapy have a better quality of life and less fatigue if they maintain an exercise program during their treatment.

Diet and excercise: It's been shown that patients who are "fit" do better with chemotherapy than those who are couch potatoes. And good nutrition probably helps as well, but that's tough to measure in cancer patients, who sometimes have a poor nutrition profile because of the disease, not because of what they eat.