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How Has Living With Mesothelioma Changed Your Eating and Exercising Habits?

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Epifanio Figueroa

After recovering from mesothelioma, Epifanio Figueroa realized the need for change and decided to alter the amount and type of food consumed. This led to a transition to a more vegetarian diet with increased vegetable and fruit consumption, as well as the incorporation of vitamin supplements and regular exercise. These lifestyle changes resulted in Epifanio feeling much better, and he recommends others to make similar changes.

After you recovered, you realize that you have to do a change in your life. Right? And my wife and I decided that mostly for me, decided that we had to change the way we the amount of food we ate, and what we ate. And I'm not saying that I'm a vegan because I'm not We couldn't say we were we were almost vegetarian in the sense that we eat more vegetables and less less meat. Fruits, we eat a lot of fruits. Would drink some supplements, vitamin supplement and we do we do exercise. I do exercise. I swim. You know, I like to swim. We like to walk. You know, we're not doing it as much as we did before, but we we're doing it. And we feel much better. Much better. And I recommend that to people.