Hello everyone.
First of all I'm not sure this is the right section to post this, it's a nutritonal issue but with an specific angle: fasting and ketosis.
In my quest to learn more about alternative cancer treatments/prevention methods (out of curiosity and fear mostly) I've come across the work of Thomas Seyfried who works on cancer as a metabolic disease. He has done some very interesting research on ketogenic diets and brain cancer which have been discussed in this forum in the past.
In a podcast I recently listened to he was talking about a therapeutic fast of 7-10 days once a year as a means to prevent cancer.
http://www.thelivinl...re-episode-302/
From my understanding going through this sort of fast would (amongst other benefits) ''purge'' your body of the cancerous cells by weakning them enough that they're easily fought off by either your immune system if in early stages or chemo therapy if advanced enough.
There has already been research on 48 hours of fasting prior to chemotherapy showing positive results, a topic which again has been discussed in this forum previously.
I'm intersted in his therapeutic fast as a way to prevent cancer unfortunately I lack the knowledge to really understand if this would work but I'm also left wondering if the ''solution'' is so simply why this is not researched more extensively. Cancer feeds on glucose, fasting induces ketosis and stresses your healthy cells to go into preservation mode while cancer cells can't adapt adequately so they die.
Fasting for 10 days every year could be something to add to our regimens if this particular benefit is fonded.
My question is: what do you guys think of this?
http://www.bc.edu/sc...n/seyfried.html