Ketogenic Diet's Impact on Cancer
Doctors gave me three months to live because of widespread metastatic cancer in my skeletal
structure.
Three months.
Three different doctors told me that same thing.
Then Fred heard about a low-sugar diet called the ketogenic diet, believed to slow cancer
in some people.
With nothing to lose, he gave it a try, and to his astonishment, it worked.
And the cancer was gone, completely.
The ketogenic diet means no sugar and no starchy carbohydrates like bread and pasta that convert
to sugar.
Cancer cells love sugar and starch because cancer thrives on the glucose from those foods.
Remove the glucose and starve the cancer cells.
Glucose also fuels our healthy cells, but if it's not there, those cells can switch
to an alternate fuel source called ketone bodies.
Cancer cells only run on glucose.
Your normal cells have the metabolic flexibility to adapt from using glucose to using ketone
bodies, but cancer cells lack this metabolic flexibility, so we can exploit that.
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