Remarkable. I’m a firm believer that everything we need to fight disease has been given to us, in the earth, by the LORD. In His mercy, he has also provided doctors and medicines, but forgoing carbohydrates is a walk in the park, compared to surgery, radiation, and chemo.
What is a ketogenic diet?
My wife has been telling people about this for 20 YEARS...more than a decade before anyone even heard of keto.
I won’t reply to comments to this, so here it is:
The patient’s metabolism isn’t doing a damned thing: It’s all about the immune system.
Lucky for the patient the choices are working. But ‘keto’ is not panacea. In fact, ‘keto’ is dangerously myopic, particularly for someone with cancer.
But hey: If I didn’t have my current knowledge and developed brain cancer, I’d try anything, too.
Those curious about the link between diet and cancer should access and read this paper, which preceded the mad rush to profit off of people via ‘diet’ and medical therapies by a couple decades:
The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30 years of clinical experimentation
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/751079/
But the key is to avoid getting cancer in the first place, isn’t it? (rhetorical)
Plus the fact that this patient had a unique mutation in his cancer which happened to respond well to this self-treatment. 82 months post-diagnosis is nothing to shake a stick at, but he shouldn’t travel to Vegas in the belief that luck is on his side...nor should anyone with cancer blindly adopt a myopic dietary regimen in the mistaken belief that it’s going to cure what ails you...
I am guessing McCain didn’t have the IDH1 mutation or he could be Biden’s Sec State today.
“Keto can help fight some form of cancer in ways all other treatments cannot.”
No surprise here as cancers JUST LOVE glucose (i.e., carbs). Dr. Fung wrote a book on it. The hard part, actually, is trying to stay off carbs, particularly in settings where ‘nutritionists’ are involved, such as hospitals, because all they’re taught is to carb-load people.
Back in the 1970s, actor Dirk Benedict (best known for the original Battlestar Galactica and The A-Team) had a prostate tumor and rejected conventional therapies in lieu of a macrobiotic diet. The tumor vanished and he’s still active at 76.
Glutaminolysis, which catabolizes glutamine to generate ATP and lactate, is a metabolic pathway that involves the initial deamination of glutamine by GLS, yielding glutamate and ammonia.
The problem with relying solely on a keto diet is the threat of gout. Substituting too much meat for carbs can be dangerous. Gout can result in amputations and worse, far worse.
That said, cancer is not the genetic disease most oncologists try and tell us. Cancer is a disease of cellular metabolism. mRNA receive energy from mitochondria. mRNA use the energy to communicate genetic requirements for performing specific tasks. Alcohol, fructose, glutamates and aspartates cause mitochondrial DNA to mutate so that they turn out energy at wavelengths which are unusable. The process also causes the production of “junk” in the cytosol. Exercise can help clear out the junk, but it has trouble reversing the fact that the shortage of cellular energy tells cellular epigenes to start creating tissue instead of energy.
I’m 70 and the wife is 68. She started the Keto lifestyle 18 months ago. I do all the cooking so it was a challenge for me. She has lost 50 lbs. And has had issues with breathing that they couldn’t diagnose. This has been alleviated. She just left this morning on a Southern Baptist training mission. And I am really proud of her. Myself I resisted KETO and always fixed a carb side dish for me. Two months ago I said this is stupid and cut out the carbs. My blood pressure before was 148 over 97 (not good). Since I started KETO my weight has dropped from 218 to 197 (first time I’ve been below 200 in 30 years). My blood pressure has dropped to 117 over 72. And I’m feeling great. KETO may not be for all, but it is sure is working for us.
Aldehydes are major carcinogens. Aldehydes are the body’s first step in metabolizing alcohol, fructose and other sugars. Most people have genetic catalysts which both neutralize aldehydes into vinegar and insert the remains into the Krebs energy cycle. These genetic catalysts are aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDH’s). Many people have congenital mutations of ALDH’s which cause the aldehydes to persist in the system. I believe this is one of the main reasons why ketogenic diets work at preventing cancer.
https://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/news/AldehydesandCancer
The mutation is key. It’s a slow growing tumor. Strange case. Most of the people getting this tumor are young, in their 20’s or 30’s, not in their 70’s.
Low carb diets cure most of the diseases that make Big Pharma rich - that’s why they have been getting the hydroxychloroquine treatment from the medical establishment and media for the last thirty years.