# Can Prolonged Fasting Starve Cancer? A Stage 4 Cancer Claim

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2108938652894069032
- Source account: [@dr_ericberg](https://x.com/dr_ericberg)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:37
- Published: 2026-10-10
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnkjqUcUHd38/en/can-prolonged-fasting-starve-cancer-a-stage-4-cancer-claim

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnkjqUcUHd38/en/can-prolonged-fasting-starve-cancer-a-stage-4-cancer-claim) If you had cancer, what would you do? Let's say it's stage four cancer. If I had that right now, I would stop eating, and I probably wouldn't eat for 20 days and try to go for 30 days.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnkjqUcUHd38/en/can-prolonged-fasting-starve-cancer-a-stage-4-cancer-claim?t=10) Why? Because you are literally going to starve all the resources from cancer. It can't survive, but your body can survive.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnkjqUcUHd38/en/can-prolonged-fasting-starve-cancer-a-stage-4-cancer-claim?t=16) Cancer actually is very sick. Inside a tumor, it's very necrotic. There's dead, dying tissue. It's hypoxic.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnkjqUcUHd38/en/can-prolonged-fasting-starve-cancer-a-stage-4-cancer-claim?t=24) What's the best sledgehammer? Is it chemo that kills also your cells?

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnkjqUcUHd38/en/can-prolonged-fasting-starve-cancer-a-stage-4-cancer-claim?t=28) Or maybe would it be starvation, what we call it fasting?

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CnkjqUcUHd38/en/can-prolonged-fasting-starve-cancer-a-stage-4-cancer-claim?t=30) If you did a long fast like that, that would put you in a better place, and then you can go to one meal a day