How Nutrition Influences Cancer
Is it possible that chromosomal damage is simply a marker for cancer and not the actual cause of the disease? Compelling evidence suggests this is the case, and in the featured lecture, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Gary Fettke reviews some of this evidence.
Having battled cancer himself, Fettke came to realize the influence of nutrition on cancer, and the importance of eating a diet high in healthy fats and low in net carbohydrates (total carbs minus fiber, i.e. non-fiber carbs). Fettke is not the only one promoting the metabolic model of cancer, which claims that:
- Cancer is not a nuclear genetic disease, but occurs as a result of previous mitochondrial damage, which then triggers nuclear genetic mutations that may lead to cancer
- Mitochondrial function can be significantly improved through diet. Eating higher amounts of healthy fats and lower amounts of net carbs, along with moderate amounts of high-quality protein, is key
- Normal, healthy cells have the metabolic flexibility to adapt from using glucose to using ketone bodies. Cancer cells lack this ability, so when you reduce net carbs (total carbs minus fiber), you effectively starve the cancer
Cancer Cells Are Metabolically Limited to Feed on Sugar
As Fettke notes, one of the primary considerations is glucose metabolism within your mitochondria — a theory initially brought forth by Dr. Otto Warburg in the 1920s.
In 1931, Warburg won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells. As it turns out, cancer cells do not have the same metabolic flexibility as healthy ones.
Warburg discovered that in the presence of oxygen, cancer cells overproduce lactic acid, and this became known as the Warburg Effect. So what does this tell us about the nutritional origins of cancer? In a nutshell, Warburg’s findings tell us that sugar “feeds” cancer while fats “starve” it.
What drives free radical production? Inflammation is a major driver, and our modern processed food diet is highly inflammatory…”
For more info on this, see: Dr. Mercola: How Nutrition Influences Cancer – Jun 11, 2016
Also see: Dr Mercola: The Cancer Revolution: A Helpful Program to Reverse and Prevent Cancer – May 07, 2017
Cancer-Related News
Scientific Studies:
- University of Copenhagen: Malaria vaccine provides hope for a general cure for cancer – 13 Oct, 2015
- Scientific American: Widely Used Herbicide [Glyphosate] Linked to Cancer – March 25, 2015
- Siberian Times: Potential [breast milk] cancer cure among first to be tested at new medicine “factory” – 11 Mar, 2015
- Futurity: Olive oil compound kills cancer in minutes – Feb 19th, 2015
- Culture Magazine: German Scientists Have Confirmed an Amazing Link between Cannabis and Cancer Suppression – Jan 22, 2015
- Science Daily: Thunder god vine, with assists by nanotechnology, could shake up future cancer treatment – August 27, 2014
- The Telegraph: What is the Body Clock’s Relationship With Cancer? – Feb 17, 2014
- Reuters: The French way of cancer treatment – Feb 12, 2014
- The Daily Mail: Taking omega-3 fish oil supplements may increase the risk of aggressive prostate cancer by 70% – 10 Jul 2013
- New York Post: Researchers find treatment that kills every kind of cancer tumor – Mar 27, 2013
- Global News Wire: Federal Government Reports Marijuana Effective in Combating Certain Cancers Reports ADSI – Mar 12, 2013
- Squeezing breasts “could stop growth of cancer cells” – 17 Dec 2012
- Psychology Today: Fighting Cancer with Science and Nature – Jul 10, 2011
- Hopkins Medicine: Solving A Traditional Chinese Medicine Mystery – Mar 2, 2011
- [Cancer researcher] William Li at TED 2010: Can we eat to starve cancer? – Feb, 2010
- Reuters: Pectin may fuel fruits’ cancer-fighting ability – Oct 29, 2008
Institutional Corruption News:
- New York Times: Four Cancer Charities Are Accused of Fraud – May 19, 2015
- San Francisco Weekly: “Miracle” Cannabis Oil: May Treat Cancer, But Money and the Law Stand in the Way of Finding Out – Apr 24th, 2013
- Dr. Mercola: Is it Time to Boycott [The American Cancer Society]? – May 24, 2011
Blood Type and Cancer
“It can be said at the outset, that cancers in general tend to be associated with group A, and slightly less strongly with group B. With that, let’s look at some trends among selected cancers with regard to blood type.” For more on this, see: http://www.dadamo.com/txt/index.pl?3009
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