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It makes intuitive sense that people who are overweight / too well-feed get more cancers than people who are subsistence farmers and don't get quite enough to e
by failwhaleshark 5y ago
It makes intuitive sense that people who are overweight / too well-feed get more cancers than people who are subsistence farmers and don't get quite enough to eat. The evidence is the rate of cancers between countries.
I would examine if keto / severe calorie restriction kills more precancerous and cancerous cells through stress.
It's probably best to start calorie restriction before acquiring cancer to keep the population of precancerous down.
- puchatek 5y agoThat's hardly evidence. You have to control for all the other things that differ between developed and undeveloped countries. Since this is difficult you could at the very least find 1000 farmers in an undeveloped country and feed them 100g of fat a day I'm addition to what they eat, then monitor their health for a few decades. Then we'd know better
- MrBuddyCasino 5y agoDon't you simply have more cells that can turn into cancer when you're fat? More tickets for the cancer lottery? As you usually loose weight on keto, maybe that explains the protective effect?
- failwhaleshark 5y agoNot exactly. Fat cells primarily increase in volume in response to lipogenesis. One of the primary hypotheses behind chemotherapy is to halt all cell division to let stress kill off more cancerous cells than healthy ones. The idea being that cancerous cells are more fragile than healthy ones, even though they proliferate faster and don't execute programmed cell death themselves as readily.