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Dad had adopted a (basically) ketogenic diet. He wasn't obsessively strict about it, he'd cheat, but he did a pretty good job of avoiding cheap complex carbs l
by crikli 10y ago
Dad had adopted a (basically) ketogenic diet. He wasn't obsessively strict about it, he'd cheat, but he did a pretty good job of avoiding cheap complex carbs like bread/pasta.
In all honesty, I'm pretty touchy about alternative cancer treatments. Probably too touchy. :) I watched Dad choke down blended flaxseed and cottage cheese. I had to talk him out of handing over what little money he and Mom had to some charlatan who claimed to be able to cure cancer with sound waves. And he was also pitched this "cancer lives on sugar, starve the cancer" horsecrap. It was all complete bullshit and he fucking died right when the doctor told me he would after Dad was diagnosed.
There are vampires and leaches out there selling fraudulent hope to the desperate. It's amazing to watch them crawl out of the woodwork.
- tptacek 10y agoI really can't imagine how horrible that must have been to experience. I'm sorry you went through it. Cancer is a bunch of different diseases. I think we get into a lot of trouble when we talk about it in simplified terms. There are stories about certain kinds of cancers having a metabolic component. I have a friend who had a very, very serious cancer which appears to have responded to metabolic therapy. It may not all be "horsecrap". But it's surely not a cure-all, either.
- crikli 10y ago"It may not all be 'horsecrap'" It's probably not. Bitterness creeps in far too easily and my words became caustic.
- leonroy 10y ago> In all honesty, I'm pretty touchy about alternative cancer treatments. Can completely understand, a lot of prats out there who take advantage of desperate folk struggling with an awful, awful disease.