Life Goal to Prevent Cancer

[JanetMarie]

I didn't know eating once a day had a diet name, but I think every way of eating now has a name.

I've been only eating enough for one meal a day, but divide into two small meals. Sometimes just once a day. Seems to be helping with histamine issues. In addition to being sensitive to high histamine food, I just plain react to eating, even if it's a normal size meal of low histamine food!

I actually feel better overall being a little hungry all the time, than eating enough to not be hungry.

 

[Arielle2]

I didnt know it a had a name either!!! OMAD !!

I cant handle being hungry. Hunger is not an option for me. Hungry is about being in ketosis or not---little to no hunger in ketosis.

I loose more weight by putting all my food into one meal than separating it into two meals. And Im not hungry. Dr Fung studies this method, and has patients do this 2-3 times a week for weight loss. It is intermittent fasting, or IF, and has remarkable health effects. Like looking younger because more growth hormone is released than usual on SAD.

 

[Arielle2]

Comprehensive look at cancer treatment via keto diet.

Read earlier this week that a study looking at adding keto diet to one group of cancer treatment had far better outcome than group without keto, my first thought was why not trial just keto?? OF course not, THAT doesnt net $50,000 for cancer treatment.

 

[Arielle2]

Except from a study.

https://www.curetoday.com/articles/...fasting-helps-reduce-breast-cancer-recurrence

A nightly fast of less than 13 hours was associated with a 36 percent higher risk of breast cancer recurrence, compared with fasting at least 13 hours per night. Additionally, each two-hour increase in nightly fasting was associated with significantly lower hemoglobin A1C levels.

Another interesting research finding involved sleep quality: the investigators found that prolonged fasting at night was associated with longer sleep duration, a finding in line with previous research that consuming foods late at night may interfere with circadian rhythms.

 

[Arielle2]

the original study discussed above--https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982776/

Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer mortality among women in developing countries and the second most common cause of cancer mortality in developed countries.1 While it is often presumed that a healthy diet will improve breast cancer outcomes, data on this hypothesis are mixed.2-5 Much of the research has focused on what to eat to prevent cancer, such as specific foods, food groups, or dietary patterns. Recently, a novel theorem has emerged that when we eat also matters, with research showing that the timing of food intake influences metabolic health and cancer.6-10 Landmark studies demonstrate that a recurring, prolonged (16-hour) fasting regimen during the sleep phase protects mice who were fed a high-fat diet against abnormal glucose metabolism, inflammation, and weight gain, all of which are associated with poor cancer outcomes.11,12

 

[Arielle2]

not sure what to think of this. black salve and sangro de .......how this woman treated her own skin cancer. FOod for thought.

 

[Arielle2]

RE: Has anyone tried fasting before chemotherapy? (Dr. Valter Longo study)
by drterry on Sat Nov 16, 2013 03:19 PM

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I'm a family medicine doctor who has been studying the biochemistry of ketogenic diets and variations on fasting for the past 2 years. We are preparing to do a research project on applying this to cancer patients.

Modified fasting for 3 days before chemo and 24 hours after chemo will put normal cells into a maintenance mode, not reproducing as much, but cancer cells can't stop. Starved, they are more vulnerable to chemotherapy, and normal cells are relatively protected. Even if fasting didn't help slow tumors and improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy, it does improve the symptoms of chemotherapy, and people's weights and WBC counts rapidly bump up with eating again.

I can't give individual medical advice, but I can discuss general principles.

You should see your doctor to see if it's safe for you to fast briefly. People who shouldn't include those who are already 10% below normal body weight, have Type 1 diabetes, or operate dangerous machinery while receiving chemo. Type 2 diabetics need to exercise special caution. Blood pressure, salt, and glucose decrease, so medications often need adjustment.

The modified fast is drinking all of the water desired, plus having a serving of 1-2 servings of miso soup or bouillon daily. It would seem that having a small serving of salad with balsamic vinegar, or toasted seaweed, would also be okay. Up to 400 calories could be taken if needed days 2 and 3 of the modified fast--avoid all sugar/carbohydrates. Although not available to the public yet, Dr. Valter Longo has developed some rations to take during the fast.

I would recommend reading all that you can of Dr. Longo's research at USC, and about how to fast safely. Sugar, carbohydrates, and perhaps protein, appear to be the drivers of inflammation, insulin, and IGF-1 levels, key in cancers.

 

[Arielle2]

I started a once a day meal plan, where I eat a low carb meal in the early afternoon. Then fast for 23 hours and eat again. Im trying this for the summer to drop weight, drop insulin, decrease inflammation in my body. Inflammation causes water retension, so that was my original premise, as I did not know about the above until today. ( thanks to a friend who gave me the link) .. ... Started Jun3, so will see how this pans out.

This is basically a keto type, low carb diet. With adequate protein, but needing plenty of fats. If I drop too low on the fats, I get hungry. The weight is coming off, so I know I am in ketosis and loosing weight.

My original plan was to follow this for 90 days. To get the extra weight off. But I am likely to continue a version of this as I tend to be a low carber anyway, except for when I fall off the wagon.

Given the above information, looks I need to be more mindful of forever living keto.

 

[Arielle2]

A testimonial by a cancer survivor commenting on his treatments.

RE: Has anyone tried fasting before chemotherapy? (Dr. Valter Longo study)
by chriscrossan on Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:11 PM

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In August 2008 I began limping on my left leg, and my wife suggested I see a doctor. At first they treated my swollen knee as a standard inflammation, but a few months and several tests later we discovered that I had a rare 10 cm bone-based soft-tissue sarcoma emanating from my proximal tibia bone, just below my knee. It was pushing itself against my main artery, so my lower limb could not be salvaged and I underwent an above-the-knee amputation. Doctors were very concerned that the tumor might have metastasized in my lungs, but when they performed a CT scan they didn’t find any - at least nothing 3 mm or larger. “But that doesn’t mean you don’t have micro-metastasis,” they explained, “the sarcoma could show up in your lungs sometime during the next three years.”

To knock out any micro metastasis that might have taken root already, I researched several medical journal articles to learn which chemotherapies might be effective. I discovered that there were four – Doxorubicin, Cisplatin, Ifosfamide and Methotrexate. If I took one of them, my chance of having a five-year remission rate was between 35 – 50%. But if I took all four of them, my chance of staying in remission was about 65%. In other words, the more kinds of chemo drugs I used, my chance of survival went up significantly.

The reason for this phenomenon is because my sarcoma was highly undifferentiated. This means that the cancer cells had morphed into a rainbow of cancers within the sarcoma family. Using a single chemo drug might kill one or two of the types of cancer cells but leave the rest intact, allowing them to resist the drug and multiply in spite of the chemo. Using three or four chemo drugs would attack the cancerous cells with multiple weapons, as it were, and deliver a much higher rate of destruction (necrosis).

At the same time I learned about the value of fasting before and after a chemo infusion. Dr. Valter Longo at USC had just published research on how fasting for a period of time causes the body’s health cells to go into a dormant phase, where the normally porous cell membrane closes itself against the outside world and doesn’t allow anything to come in or out, including chemotherapy poison. The cancer cells do not have this mechanism; their cell walls are always porous and vulnerable to a poison’s entry. Thus whenever a patient fasts before taking a chemo infusion, the patient’s healthy cells do not succumb to the poisonous effects as much, leaving more poison to attack the wide-open cancer cells.



I resolved to spend 36 hours before my infusion drinking only herbal teas without sugar. After my infusion of Cisplatin and Doxorubicin I waited another day before eating any food in order to give my body 24 hours to clear most of the chemo poison. The effects were amazing. Each time I returned to the infusion center for my next infusion, my blood counts were just below normal and remained there during the 12 weeks of chemo. My hair didn’t even fall out. The nurses were pleasantly surprised.

The best new of all was that now, four years later, a CT scan of my lungs reveals no metastasis whatsoever. It appears that the sarcoma was obliterated. When my nurse Agnes gave me my first infusion of Doxorubicin, she referred to the bright red liquid as the ‘red devil’, but the drug - along with the others - turned out to be an angel in disguise. As a result, today I am a cancer survivor, not a victim.

Chris C

 

[Arielle2]

RE: Has anyone tried fasting before chemotherapy? (Dr. Valter Longo study)
by chriscrossan on Mon Sep 15, 2014 01:43 PM

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Hi Richard, I'm glad you posted a note about your cancer and your desire to try fasting. I just read a new study by Dr. Longo which shows that even apart from the actual chemotherapy infusion, periodic fasting can help cause the cancer cells to do apoptosis (self-destruction), enabling the tumors to shrink or to at least grow at a slower pace. I am currently fasting 34 hours each week. I do it in the following way: after dinner on Thursday evening, I drink only water or herbal tea (without sugar!) until Saturday breakfast. That leaves my body about 34 hours to deplete my bloodstream of the normal sugars and proteins that feed all my cells. The normal cells will go into a kind of hybernation, while the cancer cells go into apoptosis. Here is the pdf of his research if you're interested. It's a bit technical but still understandable if you're patient... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3608686/pdf/nihm

God bless you, and may he fill you with his peace during this valley of darkness