Fasting: interesting experiment!

Fasting

Hi Ann,

Now is probably not the time to focus on weight loss. Fasting can place people with cancer at risk, especially those who are malnourished. Studies related to cancer suggest that fasting could actually lead to promotion of tumors. No evidence supports fasting as a healthy habit during cancer therapy or any other time. 

AnnNYC said:

Healthy eating

Thank you for your good advice.  Now that I've had my PET/CT today, I'm easing back into eating.  Healthy eating it will be, as it should have been all along, but now I will really fuel my body with what it needs to get through this.  I'm still fascinated by the fact that I'm now on day 3 of no bleeding though, which is extremely exceptional for me.  I think I will stay away from sugar and see if I can continue this trend.

 

I was worried for you and that fasting revelation.

Wise move to not fast my sister, you cannot starve cancer cells without also starving the cancer fighting cells as well

then you will get new health issues on top of cancer issues,

Decision to eat' healthy' is a plus, good luck.

Moli wishing showers of blessings and 0 confusion. Nuff love.

 

Fasting

Hi ladies, it's 8 years and a week since I was diagnosed with cancers (serous, clear cells and endometroid), that time stage II b, today only stage II.

2 years later, in October 2010 I fast for 21 days. I did that as a training for possible recurrence. With my collection and all of them grade 3 it's look to me like no if, but when.

Anyway it was awesome experience, my best friend was glass of water and not so worm shower. I worked almost all the time, cooked for my family, took care of garden.

Since then I found out that ketogenic diet mimics fast so you can try that. Recommended author  is Elaine Cantin 

The Benefits of Fasting During Treatment

Hi AnnNYC,

Actually, you are onto something.  Dr. Valter Longo has done quite a bit of research regarding intermittent fasting and cancer and it shows quite a bit of promise.  He based his research on Otto Warburg's research that showed you can reduce the activity of cancer cells by depriving them of sugar.  Thomas Seyfried even said in his book "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease,"  that perhaps the conventional treatments are not what impact the cancer directly but the anorexia caused by them.  In other words, the fact that conventional treatment negatively impacts the patient's appetite may actually be what kills the cancer.

I know a number of women who fast around chemo days.  They eat a high fat, moderate protein, very low carb breakfast the day before chemo and break the fast the morning after chemo with a similar type of meal.  This starves the cancer cells prior to chemo, which causes them to absorb much more of the chemo drugs when they are administered.  Women I know who do this have very, very minimal side effects from the treatment because the cancer cells absorb the bulk of the drugs, leaving the normal cells unharmed. 

I know to many, this might sound counterintuitive, bordering on bad advice.  But the women I know who are following this protocol are doing so under the guidance of health practitioners.  Additionaly, the advice is to stick to a ketogenic diet, very low carb.  There are a number of Ketogenic cookbooks out there, if you decide to check into it.  There is also a Facebook Page for people pursuing a Ketogenic diet.  Most of the people there are doing the diet to lose weight, but some of them are using the diet for cancer purposes.  Good luck. Do you research.