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Hi revesratrol which is mentioned in the article is not as such a "drug", it is an over counter supplement (quite expensive actually).

StephN: avoidance of fast sugar is very good for a number of things such as avoiding the formation of certain growth factors that stimulate tumor spread/formation. It also avoid lowering you immune system, I think that something like a spoon of sugar is enough to reduce your immune system for several hours. But basically in some way sugar does not directly starve the cancer but still help a lot to fight by being heathier and not stimulate cell growth. But all carb are broken down to glucose.

Back to revesratrol, less publicised is that it is also the chemical that your body produces when you do a fast. I can never repeat enough that fasting is not the same as starving. Fasting is when your body uses its surplus of fat to eat, starving is when you have no fat left and therefore has to use organ two extremely different thing that unfortunately people associate. When you fast you are still eating but your healthy cell can eat fat however cancer cell only survive through glycolysis (i.e. on glucose, and are unable to use fat.

When you fast (i.e. having fat surplus) your body go into a protective mode and immune system is stimulated (80% is tied up in digestion) and revesratrol is produced. Remember that article about the fasting mice had no secondary effect from chemo when fasting but still cancer cell being killed.. not enough research on this.. but who would research a 'free' fast.