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Do you want to help fund research about the possible effectiveness of low-carb ketogenic diets inhibiting cancer growth? Then you could back this scientific project from Professor Eugene Fine and Professor Richard Feinman:
Experiment: Can Low Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diets Inhibit Cancers?
Can ketogenic diets be effective in treating cancer? Here’s an interesting new interview from the recent Low Carb USA conference. Ivor Cummins interviews one of the leading researchers of ketogenic diets: Dominic D’Agostino.
Well worth watching, like the earlier interviews by Cummins.
Pablo received devastating news at age 25: He had a terminal brain tumor and only between 6 and 9 months to live. Doctors suggested chemotherapy – despite no hope of a cure in his case.
After studying online, Pablo chose to implement a ketogenic diet instead. Two years later, he’s still miraculously alive. What’s more, the tumor is apparently not even growing.
Plymouth Herald: Pablo, 27, Says His Survival After Terminal Diagnosis Is down to a Special Diet
The idea behind using a ketogenic diet to stop tumor growth is that you can starve it by not feeding it sugar. Plus, lowering growth factors like insulin may also slow down growth. It might work in some instances, and in some not, as outlined in this article which we wrote a few weeks back: Can Low-Carb and Ketogenic Diets Be Helpful in Treating Cancer?.
Note that Pablo is a case where conventional chemotherapy would have a moderate effect at best, with no hope of a cure. In many other situations conventional cancer treatment is very effective, offering excellent odds of beating the disease. Turning down treatment in such cases would be a very bad idea.
However, a ketogenic diet might be a potent weapon to use alongside other cancer treatments, at least in some cases. There would probably be much more research going on if it were a patentable drug instead of a simple diet.
Can low-carb and ketogenic diets be helpful in treating cancer? Learn more in this new interview:
Dr. Kara Fitzgerald: Cancer, Low-Carb Diets and Tumor Keto-Adaptation
The main point is that there seems to be a great variability in responsiveness in patients to low-carb and ketogenic diets. Dr. Eugene Fine, professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, explains that in cases where patients did not respond well in his study, there were metabolic dysregulations (e.g. prediabetes) that may have made cancer cells resistant to the potential anti-cancer effects of ketosis.
Note also that in almost all cases researchers are discussing using ketogenic diets together with conventional cancer treatment, not by itself.
Here’s a segment of my earlier interview with cancer researcher Professor Eugene J. Fine. Transcript Continue Reading →
Could excessive protein in the diet be a problem for aging and cancer?
Dr. Ron Rosedale’s has been talking about this for a long time. Here’s his highly interesting recent presentation from the Low Carb Vail conference. Watch part of it above. Transcript
You can watch the whole presentation on our member site:
Protein Intake – Effects on Longevity, Aging and Cancer – Full presentation
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Could excessive protein in the diet be a problem for aging and cancer?
Here’s a very controversial presentation that I found fascinating. It’s Dr. Ron Rosedale’s presentation on the importance of protein restriction for health, recorded at the recent Low Carb Vail Conference.
This – should it be true – is just one of the reasons a proper low-carb diet should primarily be higher in fat, and contain only moderate amounts of protein. A low-carb, high-fat diet.
Obviously the body needs protein – it’s an essential nutrient – but there’s no need to eat more protein than necessary to feel and perform at our best.
You can watch the full presentation on our member site:
Protein Intake – Effects on Aging, Longevity and Cancer – Dr. Ron Rosedale
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Sugar is the new tobacco, at least in the media. Here’s another example. A new study finds that people eating a diet with a high glycemic index – carbs that rapidly elevate blood sugar – have an elevated risk of lung cancer.
Obviously this is only based on statistics and can’t prove that bad carbs cause lung cancer. But if bad carbs can cause obesity and diabetes, why not cancer too?
Science Daily: Dietary glycemic index linked to lung cancer risk in select populations
Can Diet Pepsi cause cancer? Possibly. It contains the commonly used sweetener Sucralose. A new study shows that this sweetener causes leukemia and related blood cancers in mice, when they consume it long term. Nobody can know for sure if this means some people drinking Pepsi will end up with leukemia, but it’s quite possible.
The findings caused the consumer watchdog CSPI (known for occasionally being very wrong) to downgrade Sucralose from “caution” to “avoid”.
CSPI: CSPI Downgrades Sucralose from “Caution” to “Avoid”
Pepsi must be disappointed. It’s just been 6 months since they changed ingredients from the artificial sweetener Aspartame to Sucralose, launching the “new diet Pepsi“, due to health concerns over Aspartame.
Other negative effects of artificial sweeteners include making it harder to lose weight, disturbing the gut flora and raising blood sugar.
Of course, diet sodas are still preferable to the sugar-bomb real thing – especially when it comes to weight and metabolic disease.
Massively better options include water, coffee or tea.
Before and after
Alma had to surgically remove one of her breasts after a breast cancer a couple of years ago. In order to qualify for a breast reconstruction the doctor had a tough demand; she had to lose at least 35 pounds!
By pure coincidence she heard of LCHF, this was back in august 2011, and she immediately took up her new eating habits. Here’s what happened. Continue Reading →
