MORE STUDIES REVEAL HOW CANCER PATIENTS SHOULD AVOID ALL SUGAR INTAKE - BOTH NATURAL AND REFINED SUGARS. Dr. Thomas Seyfried is one of the leading pioneer academic researchers in promoting how to treat cancer nutritionally. In fact, he believes that the most important aspect of cancer prevention and treatment is intermittent fasting, or overall calorie restriction, which includes eating less of everything, period. That said, Dr. Seyfried’s work confirms that sugar is the primary fuel for cancer, and that by restricting sugar and providing an alternate fuel, namely fat, you can dramatically reduce the rate of growth of cancer. This is because cancer cells lack the metabolic flexibility of your normal cells so when you deprive them of sugar they have no fuel, but your regular cells can thrive quite nicely on fat alone. He explains: “When we’re dealing with glucose and [cancer] management, we know from a large number of studies that if respiration of the tumor is ineffective, in order to survive, the cells must use an alternative source of energy, which is fermentation. We know that glucose is the primary fuel for fermentation. Fermentation becomes a primary energy-generating process in the tumor cell. By targeting the fuel for that process, we then have the capability of potentially managing the disease.” The strategy Dr. Seyfried suggests is a low-carb, low- to moderate-protein, high-fat diet, which will effectively lower your blood sugar. This is an easily measurable parameter that you can check using a diabetic blood glucose meter. This type of diet, called a ketogenic diet, will also elevate ketone bodies, as fat is metabolized to ketones that your body can burn in the absence of food. When combined with calorie restriction, the end result will put your body in a metabolic state that is inhospitable to cancer cells. “[Ketones] is a fat breakdown product that can replace glucose as a major fuel for many of the organs and especially our brain,” he says. Source, Mercola
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