Bill Turnbull reveals healthy diet and meditation are helping him battle cancer amid mood swings from hormone therapy
BILL Turnbull has revealed how his new diet has made him feel more healthy as he battles cancer.
The news presenter was diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer in 2017, and also said hormone treatment has left him experiencing mood swings.
Bill, 64, explained: “Most of the time, I am absolutely fine, I get hot flushes, they pass. But occasionally, I can feel my mood THREAT doorstep dipping.
“Now when we go down into a dip and I howl like a baby – well, like a grown man, which is much worse – I understand it is chemically induced and it will pass the next day. And it always does.
“At the moment, we are holding steady. I’m on a treatment called Radium 223. It was working very well for five months, now it is working sort of OK.”
The telly favourite says lifestyle changes such as removing meat and dairy from his diet and taking up yoga and meditation have left him feeling healthier.
Bill presented BBC Breakfast for 15 years from 2001-2016[/caption]
Bill said his hormone treatment for cancer give him massive mood swings[/caption]
And putting his career skills to good use, he conducted some research on plant-based diets.
The journalist told The Mirror: “I did a lot of research and it comes up time and time again that a wholefood, plant-based diet is good for you. It gets overwhelming, but it is great to be part of that cancer family.
“You get a lot of support from other people.”
Bill stood in for Piers Morgan alongside Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain last month[/caption]
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Just last month, Bill temporarily returned to presenting duties as he reunited with Susanna Reid six years after they fronted BBC breakfast together.
However, the show, which took place on a Wednesday descended into chaos when he lost his earpiece in the ad break and Susanna mocked her co-presenter as she joked: “You know that they call Wednesday hump day. Bill is really having one of those Wednesdays.”