Glucose restriction to starve cancer - an update

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  • Yolllmbs
    Yolllmbs Member Posts: 360 Member
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    peterz54 said:

    Dr Longo's 2013 lecture - fasting & cancer

     

    Here's a link to a June 2013 lecture by Dr Valter Longo which includes discussion of the mechanisms by which fasting helps to slow cancer growth and to make cancer cells more susceptable to chemo while strenthening normal cells, resulting in more effective treatment and milder side effects.  He mentions several institutions where clinical trials are planned.

    The cancer part of the lecture starte 23 minutes in.

    http://fasten.tv/en/vortraege/longo

     

    peter

    Glucose levels

    I am a type 2 diabetic. My once told me not to worry if my sugars spike to 400 Because of the steroids. I've done everything to try to keep it much lower. i am insulin dependent and had my sugar regulated in the 114-130 levels before the surgery. Between the diet after the resection and the chemotherapy, every small thing raises my sugar. Day 1 to day 7 on each cycle has been tough to wrangle my numbers  I think there is a real correlation between sugar and cancer. It still blows my mind that the folfox 6 regimen is given with glucose. 

  • peterz54
    peterz54 Member Posts: 341
    #23
    Yolllmbs said:

    Glucose levels

    I am a type 2 diabetic. My once told me not to worry if my sugars spike to 400 Because of the steroids. I've done everything to try to keep it much lower. i am insulin dependent and had my sugar regulated in the 114-130 levels before the surgery. Between the diet after the resection and the chemotherapy, every small thing raises my sugar. Day 1 to day 7 on each cycle has been tough to wrangle my numbers  I think there is a real correlation between sugar and cancer. It still blows my mind that the folfox 6 regimen is given with glucose. 

    Type 2 & chemo with glucose

    you certainly have an added hurdle.    Neither Dr Longo or Dr Seyfried would recommend doing fasting alone (without medical guidance) for various reasons including accounting for special cases like yours.    Dr Seyfried's approach doesn't really depend on fasting but on food substitution and reducing calories for several day leading into each chemo treatment. 

    I know PET scan imaging technology depends on the fact the cancer cells take in glucose much faster than normal cells, except for special cases like brain cells which take up a large  fraction  of glucose.   So putting   chemo in a solution containing glucose seems to make sense as it may help get the chemo into the tumors faster and a higher concentrations, but this is just my speculation.  

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