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As I understand it cancer cells can only use sugars for energy. If you fast your body starts metabolising fat, releasing ketones. Normal cells can use ketones f
by noelwelsh 15y ago
As I understand it cancer cells can only use sugars for energy. If you fast your body starts metabolising fat, releasing ketones. Normal cells can use ketones for energy, but cancer cells cannot. Hence, fasting could be a way to manage cancer. So at least one of the people mentioned in the post might not be a crackpot.
Here's a bit of academic work on the subject:
"The goal of the current study was to test the hypothesis that ketone bodies can inhibit cell growth in aggressive cancers ... all cancer lines demonstrated proportionally inhibited growth ... The results bear on the hypothesized potential for ketogenic diets as therapeutic strategies."
http://cancerci.com/content/9/1/14 http://cancerci.com/content/9/1/14
- eru 15y agoWrong thread?
- noelwelsh 15y agoNo, but my point was a bit oblique. In the linked post there is this line: "Some sweet code has been written by ... (in at least once [sic] case) someone who believes that fasting will cure cancer." I wanted to point out that said person might not be a crackpot, and I thought HN might find an exercise in pedantry somewhat amusing.
- cycojesus 15y agoFunnily enough, no.
- bartl 15y agoPerhaps you didn't read all of it? Anyway, the person mentioned in this subthread did reply in a comment on the original post. (http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=196#comment-721 http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=196#comment-721)
- eru 15y agoThanks. I guess I should read more carefully.
- atakan_gurkan 15y agoInteresting. By similar reasoning, getting most of your calories from fat would lead to the same result. That may be less troublesome than fasting.
- noelwelsh 15y agoYes, I think this idea is being taken up by the researcher I linked above.
- sadlyNess 15y agothe guy he was referring to: http://sam.ai.ki/cancer-2.html http://sam.ai.ki/cancer-2.html
- ironparlance 15y agoAnti-angiogenesis drugs and supplements also show promise in shutting down cancer cells.