Starving cancer by cutting off its favorite foods
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#2I wonder if occasional long term fasts can reduce your cancer risk.
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#3I wonder if occasional long term fasts can reduce your cancer risk.
I came here to say this. Seems like an intuitive conclusion.
OTOH, intuition is sometimes wrong.
It should be a pretty simple study to do. Just make sure to get enough people involved. Then correlate amount of fasting with the incidence of cancer over some period of time. I guess the duration of the study would be the only impediment.
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#4Anyone here doing keto diet? I've been doing it for about 6 months and I feel more concentrated and energized. I wonder what anyone else feel about doing keto diet?
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#5I wonder if occasional long term fasts can reduce your cancer risk.
From my research, yes it can. I read a study that said patients who fast during chemotherapy treatments fare better too.
The mechanism seems to be that during periods of fasting, normal cells "hunker down" and restrict the consumption of nutrients and other materials. Cancer cells don't do this though and continue to consume the nutrients, which are actually chemotherapy drugs in the patients.
Fasting therfore increases the absorption of chemo by the cancer cells and reduces the consumption by normal cells keeping the patient healthier.
Fasting also enables the body to more completely rid itself of cancerous cells by consuming them in the absence of alternative sources of nutrition.
Lots of reasons why fasting is a good thing.
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#6> your body closely regulates the level of glucose in your blood. Your brain would literally starve without it.
Is this actually true? Having done the ketogenic diet and bringing carbohydrates down to almost nothing, my brain definitely didn't starve. In fact, running on ketones was amazing.
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#7A carnivorous diet (meat only, zero carbs) would accomplish the same without the pharmacological drawback. Been on the diet for over a year and have never felt better in my life.
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#8I wonder if occasional long term fasts can reduce your cancer risk.
To reach a ketogenic state, the term fast from a clinical sense required 24-36 hour period without any caloric intake; strictly water. I have done 3 day water fasts, the hunger waves need to be controlled the first 2 days, but the feeling is gone after that point.
There are many things to consider, including refeeding syndrome, it is highly advised to seek MD advice prior to undertaking such a diet.
Lastly, there is a ton of research highlighting fasting and its effects on stem cell regenerative properties.
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#9A carnivorous diet (meat only, zero carbs) would accomplish the same without the pharmacological drawback. Been on the diet for over a year and have never felt better in my life.
Keto diet is very similar.
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#10> your body closely regulates the level of glucose in your blood. Your brain would literally starve without it. Is this actually true? Having done the ketogenic diet and bringing carbohydrates down to almost nothing, my brain definitely didn't starve. In fact, running on ketones was amazing.
No. All the excess protein you likely consumed has actually increased your risk of cancer significantly.