Tuesday, October 20, 2015

How to kill cancer cells, important to read!


Starving cancer cells with a Ketogenic Diet 

A number of expert scientists believe that the Ketogenic diet, involving a high ´good fat´, low carbohydrate, lowish protein combination, may have the potential to manage even advanced cancer cases - preliminary research shows it can stop cancer progression, inhibit metastases and kill off cancer cells.

Cancer cells can ONLY survive by using glucose as fuel all other cells can use either glucose or ketone bodies:




Simple Theories of the Ketogenic Diet

1.The fundamental tenet of the Ketogenic Diet is that cancer cells need to ferment to survive. And to do this they consume glucose and glutamine (from protein). While healthy cells can switch to burning fats if there is insufficient glucose available, cancer cells are inflexible and the theory is that if there´s no glucose available, they wither and die.

2.There is increasing evidence that high plasma glucose levels are linked to greater cancer risk and lowered survival in those already with cancer.

3. There is increasing evidence that calorie restriction (that is, eating about 15% less calories than you need in a day) can aid cancer survival.

4. There is increasing evidence that fasting can increase survival because it reduces plasma glucose levels, and those of the hormones IGF-1 and insulin, both implicated in cancer development. Fasting also restricts glutamine levels, another energy source for cancer. And fasting boosts the immune system.
Note also, that both Calorie Restriction and fasting have been shown to improve chemotherapy outcomes, reduce side-effects, and allow lowered doses of chemotherapy to be used.

5. After 24 hours fasting starts to starve inflexible cancer cells of their fuel (glucose), while normal healthy cells, which are flexible, can burn fuel from other sources (for example, fats). This is called KETOSIS.
Unfortunately, in practice, 70 per cent of cancer patients cannot bear the thought of fasting even though it can halt cancer progression.

6. A ketogenic diet, which limits carbohydrate and protein consumption, but allows people to eat healthy fats, overcomes the need to fast while enhancing ketosis in the body.

What does the Ketogenic Diet involve?
While calorie restriction may have benefits against cancer, when you next have a meal glucose, insulin, IGF-1 and glutamine levels all spike. This causes mood swings, cellular inflammation and may refuel the cancer cells. Complete fasting (3-5 days) can prevent this. Fasting induces a state of ketosis in the body, where flexible healthy cells deprived of glucose switch to a fat burning system. But cancer cells do not have this flexibility, and so they starve to death.

So then we come to a Ketogenic Diet where the rules are simple:
1. Eat no carbohydrates other than non-starchy vegetables - definitely consume no glucose or high fructose corn syrup (think fizzy soft drinks).
2. Eat moderate amount of protein - and make sure it is quality, fresh protein (fish, chicken)not dried meats and the like which can have added carbohydrate. High protein consumption can increase glutamine levels, glutamine is the cancer cells reserve fuel when glucose levels have depleted.

3. Consume good fats - like virgin olive oil, fish oils, flaxseed, walnut, macadamia and other nuts and seeds, coconut oil, avocados. Eat no ´bad´ trans fats and no cows´ dairy, unless raw and from grass fed cows; even then in moderation.

The theory is that this maximizes the state of ketosis, reduces the drivers of cancer and can starve cancer cells out of existence,



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