Take-Home Messages From The 2011 Nutrition & Metabolism Society Symposium In Baltimore
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Dr. Thomas Seyfried–“Ketone Bodies and Cancer”
- Most brain tumors are untreatable and patients die from the pressure build-up
- Calorie restriction is necessary for treating brain tumors
- The mitochondria are dysfunctional in human brain tumors
- Otto Warburg noted that cancer leads to irreversible damage
- Tumor cells are unable to shift from feeding on glucose to ketones
- Cancer is more of a metabolic disease than a genetic one
- There’s an 80% reduction in tumor weight when calorie-restricted
- Calorie-restriction one of the most powerful therapies for killing cancer cells
- As glucose is decreased, cancer cells reduce as well
- A low-carb, calorie-restricted diet is better than the best drug therapy for cancer
- Ketogenic calorie-restricted diets have reduced brain tumors in mice and humans
- Blood glucose remains too high on an unlimited calories low-carb diet to treat cancer
- Calorie-restricted low-carb diets create adequate ketones for treating brain tumors
- Ketogenic, calorie-restricted diets don’t cure cancer, but they come close
- Tumors can’t grow when calories are cut to create ketones
- Limiting carbs and calories puts you in the zone of managing tumor growth
- Brain cancer in children can be treated with ketogenic diets by reducing glucose
- Avoid radiation therapy if all all possible–ketogenic, calorie-restricted diet is best for cancer
Dr. Eugene Fine–“Reduced Carbohydrates in Aggressive Resistant Tumors (RECHARGE Trial)”
- Not all cancers are dependent on glucose for growth, including prostate cancer
- Hyperinsulinemia is a major cancer risk factor–that’s why reducing insulin in paramount
- It’s plausible that reducing insulin secretion could inhibit cancer growth
- The typical American diet contains 300-400g carbs daily–spiking insulin
- Cut the carbs and you’ll cut the insulin and reduce your cancer risk
- You don’t want an insulin knockout (Type 1 diabetes), but rather an insulin knockdown
- A low-carb diet provides the proper control of insulin without eliminating the good it does
- Reduced carb diets have not demonstrated adverse effects up to 2 years as a medical therapy
- Humans were built as hunter-gatherers to be in a ketotic state most of the time
- Fasting is in our ancestral biochemistry with no ill effects
- There is no known dietary requirement for carbohydrate in your diet
- Grains and vegetables are only a relatively recent addition to the human diet
- A very low-carb diet changes the metabolic environment where cancer would grow
- Too many people are living outside of a sustained ketogenic state leading to more cancer
- RECHARGE Trial used very low-carb diet on 10 patients who failed on chemotherapy
- The study placed the participants on a very low-carb ketogenic diet for 28 days
- Average daily intake consumed by study patients was 27g carbs and 1236 daily
- All of the study participants were ketotic
- Future direction of research will be a larger study using ketogenic diets–funding needed
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