There is a very popular notion going around that cancer cells feed on sugar.
And that means that if you eat low sugar and low carbohydrate, you can starve your cancer into submission.
However, this is a gross mistake.
In today’s newsletter, I’m going to show you the latest studies on what cancer cells actually eat.
I’m also going to show you some very promising ways that you can reduce your chances of getting cancer.
And if you already have cancer– you may be able to reduce or eliminate the cancer with nutrition and supplements.
As always, nothing in my newsletter should be used to avoid seeing the doctor or getting professional medical advice.
Dr. Otto Warburg discovered that cancer cells act like muscle cells when you’re doing vigorous exercise.
As you probably know, when you’re exercising vigorously, your muscle cells burn sugar improperly, and they produce lactic acid which causes the burn in the muscles.
This is very inefficient, but your body needs the quick energy — but you can’t afford to be inefficient.
So your muscles revert to their proper use of sugar as soon as you slow down again… reducing their workload.
Dr. Warburg won the Nobel Prize for finding out that cancer cells work the same way as muscles do when you demand a lot of quick energy.
Cancer cells are all about the need for speed, so they are very inefficient users of sugar.
Cancer cells can be identified by how they burn sugar, burning the sugar only partially.
Cancer cells seem to have this poor metabolism in order to grow and multiply quickly.
So from Dr. Warburg’s discovery came the notion that cancer cells rely on sugar to grow.
And to some extent they do.
However, cancer cells require fats in order to multiply.
They simply cannot multiply without a lot of fat.
And in fact, if you deny fat to cancer, the cancer fails to grow, and even dies.
So we needed to find out how the cancer cells are getting the fat they require, and there were two possibilities.
Either the cancer cells can make their own fat, or they can draw fat from your surrounding tissues.
In this study, they found out that cancer cells do generate their own fat, but that they also must have fat from your surrounding tissues.
So the answer was… Both.
And researchers even went further to discover that lowering fat levels in the tissues slow down or stop the growth of cancer.
And this is a repeatable and predictable way of stopping cancer… Lowering fat.
The drug companies are furiously working on this path, the path of inhibiting the fat production or fat uptake by cancer cells.
Here is an example of just some of the compounds, chemicals, and drugs that they are researching, patenting, and selling to people in order to prevent or treat cancer:
Some of these drugs are available over-the-counter.
For example, if you look under FASN, you’ll see flavonoids are naturally occurring, and that Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (or EGCG) is found in green tea.
And orlistat is something you can buy over-the-counter as a way to lose weight.
It’s a legal weight-loss remedy that you don’t need a prescription for, and it can be used for cancer because like all of the chemicals or drugs on this chart, it prevents cancer cells from either making fat or using fat.
You can even consider aspirin — in higher dosages, aspirin stops cancer cells cold by keeping them from burning fat.
FAT is the new sugar as far as cancer cells are concerned.
This is all a very fortunate turn of events because you can’t really deny your body sugar.
You can not eat sugar and other carbs, but your body still will produce plenty of sugar on its own.
It’s a process known as gluconeogenesis.
Your body needs a lot of sugar, and it will make the sugar either from dietary protein, dietary fat to some extent or from your own tissues.
What happens when you have low sugar is your body starts secreting large amounts of cortisol to maintain blood sugar.
And the cortisol starts digesting all of your tissues, including your heart, your lungs, your thymus gland, and your muscle.
So you start wasting away, in order for your body to have enough sugar.
There really is no way to avoid your body’s need for sugar, but luckily, we don’t need to.
Stopping fat stops cancer — many studies show the same thing.
This study shows VERY clearly how important controlling fat is if you want to control cancer.
Lower fat = slower growth or NO growth.
These pictures are striking:
And it’s been verified with leukemia cancer:
As Dr. Taegtmeyer, one of the researchers said about leukemia, which is a type of cancer:
Fat oxidation seems to promote leukemia cell survival.
Shutting off fat oxidation makes the cells vulnerable to self-destruction.
If these initial results hold up, inhibitors of fat oxidation may become a new way to treat leukemia patients.
The same would probably be true of ALL cancers.
What to do next?
It may pay for you to talk to your doctor about fat stoppers that stop cancer from feeding, especially if you have a slow-growing prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is mostly, and my opinion, best left untreated by surgery or any kind of invasive procedures.
But now there is a promising dietary approach to minimizing prostate cancer growth.
You might end up living to be 100 or 120 with prostate cancer because the cancer just doesn’t grow.
And that would be okay, wouldn’t it?
Citations
Cellular Fatty Acid Metabolism and Cancer
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413113002076
Researchers find leukemia cells metabolize fat to avoid cell death
http://phys.org/news/2010-01-leukemia-cells-metabolize-fat-cell.html
FoxA and LIPG endothelial lipase control the uptake of extracellular lipids for breast cancer growth
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160405/ncomms11199/full/ncomms11199.html
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