Here’s a remarkably positive new segment from CBN on how a strict low carb diet might starve cancer and treat epilepsy. The reporter is on low carb herself.
Eating a low carb diet not only reduces glucose levels (possible cancer fuel) somewhat in the body. It also reduces levels of the growth hormones insulin and IGF-1, meaning cancer cells might not get the signal to divide.
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Inflamation is about how our imune system react to try to react on things that wrong.. and it its energy consuming.. I think?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121204112610.htm
There is no doubt in my mind that carbohydrates fuel all types of cancer.
It is so refreshing to see topics like semi-dwarf wheat, true cholesterol science, and ketogenic diets creeping into the mainstream. Dr. Oz and CBN may not have American Idol levels of popularity, but they have significantly large audiences in their own right. The future looks bright for widespread health improvements in the developed world.
Hell, we don't have much of a choice. If things don't change, our health care costs are going to overwhelm us as a collective society.
http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007(12)00186-4/fulltext
It was published October 2012 in the journal Nutrition.
Although the title is not giving away that it is a study of advanced cancers and low carb ketogenic diet...
The study used ketogenic diet, ketone metering and PET scans to document correlation between cancer progression and ketone changes. The results are an average of 3 times higher ketosis in patients with no cancer progress or regression (5)compared to those with progressive disease (4), with a study time of 26-28 days.
The results is positive in spite of average low values of absolute ketosis, but must of course be tested in larger studies. Larger studies are now easy and low cost with LCHF -menus that are getting more palatable by the day, and home ketone meters coming as integral parts of new blood sugar meters.
but whether that only advances other people's funding or whether Dr. Fine will be able to continue his study remains to be seen.
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There is the problem of gluconeogenesis. When cancers demand glucose, I think the liver will respond by breaking down protein to supply it. This is why cancer is a wasting disease - people who have it lose muscle.
As for populations that naturally eat LCHF diets, the earliest humans certainly did - and skeletons from after the agricultural revolution show that they paid a high price for switching to carbs, even though it made civilization possible. Today, there are few populations that still eat this way. Some Masai tribes still do. Up until about a hundred years ago, the Inuit did. They ate almost nothing but blubber (whale and seal fat) and some meat, for most of the year. They were extremely healthy, with heart disease and cancer almost unknown.
Its those cancers that dependant on insulin for there glucose supply that is affected!
Warburg beleved that all cancers was dependant on glucose, now we know that its not so, but the moste is!
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There are others that make there own ketonbodys from fat, to survive, and some howe could be relaying of fat or amino acids!
The thing about cancer cells is that they are new and there whole evolution is in our bodys.. there they is formed of those envirolments that apear there.. often a high reliance of glucose.
If one do shift to fat/ketones.. they are out of that envirolment conditions and cant survive.
You should know that even fasting is often good for cancer treatment, its make the cell metabolism different and often promotes ketosis.