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Was this no refined sugar or no sugar at all?
My guess it was a very low carb diet. The only difference between refined sugar in a soft drink and break is how fast the sugars get into your blood.
A family member of mine was diagnosed with metastatic cancer and told to get her affairs in order. She went on a strict no sugar diet. 5 years later, she has no sign of cancer. Of course, she also had standard surgery and chemo. But I wouldn't be in the least surprised if the no sugar diet slowed the cancer down enough for the chemo/surgery to be more effective.
This seems unlikely. I mean it would be such a simple experiment to do. Give a few rats cancer, and give them different diets. See how long they live. Surely that's already been done, and if the results were so positive, surely we would know about them.
strong conclusion. What is your basis for it, if any? Do you have any related experience, education? May be you happened at least to read something on the subject?
>if the results were so positive, surely we would know about them.
we do know about them. At least when you are not too lazy to use Google.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26782788
"Although the full mechanism by which ketogenic diets improve oncological and neurological conditions still remains to be elucidated, their clinical efficacy has attracted many new followers, and ketogenic diets can be a good option as a co-adjuvant therapy, depending on the situation and the extent of the disease."
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They recommend that because in many cases you can't hold down solid food for periods of time. Good luck eating your veg and protein when you immediately vomit it back up.
Not only that but it is very easy to create a very strong food aversion to whatever you have recently eaten. Your brain connects the very bad nausea that results from the chemo with whatever you last ate. This effect can be so strong that people can never eat that food ever again.
I couldn't drink tequila for years after getting so drunk, and so sick from it.
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My guess it was a very low carb diet. The only difference between refined sugar in a soft drink and break is how fast the sugars get into your blood.
What do you mean break? Anyway, there are many differences between refined sugar and natural sugar in e.g. fruit.
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My guess it was a very low carb diet. The only difference between refined sugar in a soft drink and break is how fast the sugars get into your blood.
What do you mean break? Anyway, there are many differences between refined sugar and natural sugar in e.g. fruit.
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They recommend that because in many cases you can't hold down solid food for periods of time. Good luck eating your veg and protein when you immediately vomit it back up.
Not only that but it is very easy to create a very strong food aversion to whatever you have recently eaten. Your brain connects the very bad nausea that results from the chemo with whatever you last ate. This effect can be so strong that people can never eat that food ever again.
I was recently shocked and practically offended to read guidelines on what to eat while undergoing chemo[1]. It was a high-sugar diet, basically (milkshakes were encouraged !). I couldn't imagine anything worse than shocking your body with radiation, and then providing cancer cells with all the sugar they need for growth. Hopefully the ideas in this article start to affect public health policy and guidelines. 1: http…
As interesting as the article is, it's way too early to have feelings as strong as being "practically offended" towards literature advising such a diet. It's perhaps better to tell patients to "eat balanced and enjoy yourself with a treat from time to time like anyone else" and stamp some medical authority behind it rather than have them obsess over diet to the point where they become hooked by all the predators sell…
I was recently shocked and practically offended to read guidelines on what to eat while undergoing chemo[1]. It was a high-sugar diet, basically (milkshakes were encouraged !). I couldn't imagine anything worse than shocking your body with radiation, and then providing cancer cells with all the sugar they need for growth. Hopefully the ideas in this article start to affect public health policy and guidelines. 1: http…
Depending on the tumor, feeding it well may increase its sensitivity to chemotherapy. On the other hand, I've read recently that fasting improved chemo tolerance because it puts healthy cells at rest while the cancerous ones are oblivious to the reduced calories intake... Not sure if it is universal. Such an early study was likely targeted a specific kind of cancer.
Also, seem to me the basic complication of dealing with cancers is that anything that will kill a cancer cell is likely to also kill healthy cells. So inversely, whatever you do to keep the patient alive is likely to also exasperate the cancer problem.
I've read in multiple places that biohackers are using Intermittent fasting as a way of preventing cancer. By making sporadic (eg. once a month) fasting periods of 12h to 24h, they expect to starve cancer cells in their very early stages (basically using the underlying principle of the article). I would be extremely interested in seeing a study of the incidence of cancer in people doing Intermittent fasting vs genera…
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Not only that but it is very easy to create a very strong food aversion to whatever you have recently eaten. Your brain connects the very bad nausea that results from the chemo with whatever you last ate. This effect can be so strong that people can never eat that food ever again.
This happens with alcohol, too. I couldn't drink tequila for years after getting so drunk, and so sick from it.