A leading doctor in the lifespan has revealed that the diet that he says he can heal cancer and may eventually repel it.
There is growing evidence that serious calorie restriction (less than 800 a day) can starve cancer cells from the fuel they need to grow, put them in their spurs and kill them.
The only problem? Studies show that even the most dedicated can meet such extreme hunger, and there may be unintended health consequences – such as muscle loss and infertility.
Now Dr. Valter Longo, director of the Longevity Institute at the University of South California, devised a diet that ‘mimics’ these effects by driving the body to think that it is fixed and still allows a person to eat.
A fasting diet (FMD) consists mainly of vegetable food, foods with few proteins and sugar and rich in healthy, unsaturated fats, such as avocados, fatty fish (tuna, salmon, sardines), olive oil, eggs, eggs and nuts (almonds, cashews).
Dr. Longo recommends following an FMD cycle once a month until once every three or four months.
This ‘tricks’ the body by thinking that fasting without refusing the food, and by doing it, makes cancer cells weak and vulnerable, so that treatments can be more effective.
Dr. Longo explained that a fast-reducing diet ‘promotes changes in the body that are equivalent to those caused by only fasting water’.
Dr. Valter Longo, depicted, is the director of the Longevity Institute at the University of South California
However, experts warn that FMDs should only be done under the close supervision of oncological dietitians to prevent complications such as muscle waste and immune system compromise, and say that the diets are ‘not a silver bullet’ cancer.
“Although we have learned that your cancer cannot only starve with fasting alone … you can use fast-mim-reasons to make the cancer cells so weak or desperate that the right therapy will kill them,” Dr. Longo.
“The ability to block cancer cells to re-wirer and escape from the toxicity of treatment is what makes fasting-mim-making diet a promising wildcard therapy.”
Some dishes on his recipes for Longevity website are anchovies with endive, cuddle artisjokken, chickpeas, onions in walnut sauce, snapper, sardines, hummus and octopus.
In his book, Fasting cancerDr. Longo detailed research into extreme calorie-restricted diets that have been tested in mice, primates and people who show that many cancers can be prevented by chronic calorie limit. ‘
However, because the diet is very difficult to follow and it is accompanied by serious weight and muscle loss, it is not feasible for most people. ‘
In addition, he wrote, several studies indicate that many and possibly most cancers can be prevented by food restrictions that influence the growth pens. ‘
But the diets cannot ‘contain chronic calorie limit, because they must be feasible and have to cause minimal or no side effects’.
Alison Tierney, an oncological dietician and survivor of cancer certified by the Board who has made some water during the treatment of chemotherapy, said the Daily Mail that there is growing scientific evidence in support of FMDs, “especially in the context of cancer” because they still make a caloric effects of fasting. ‘
“FMD or just water teeth are not suitable for everyone,” she said. ‘If a patient is considering a fasting protocol, it is essential that he works closely with their oncology team and a sign-certified oncology dietitian.
‘Together they can assess the medical history, current food status and treatment goals to determine whether fasting is a safe and supportive option.
‘If so, continuous monitoring is crucial. Only FMD and Water only have to be lent protocols often adjusted during treatment to ensure that they heal and do not endanger – healing and strength.
‘So yes, fasting can be useful in some cases. But it must be done safely and individually. ‘
Tierney added that calorie limitation can be risky during cancer treatment, because this can lead to malnutrition, muscle waste, fatigue, oppressed immune function and delayed wound healing – all of which are serious when the body is already under stress. ‘
‘Even FMDs, although generally safer [than water-only fasting]Being able to come up with challenges such as unintended weight loss, low energy, dehydration or insufficient intake of nutrients, especially without the right guidance, “she added.
“That is why a personalized approach is the key.”
Dr. Longo recommends eating 11 to 12 hours a day and fasting 12 to 13 hours a night, in contrast to the more restrictive intermittent fasting regime of food for eight hours and 16 hours of fasting.
The diet consists of food with few proteins and sugar and rich in healthy fats, such as avocados, fishing, olive oil, eggs and nuts
Moreover, the doctor said that his research has found a way to use a combination of standard therapies and the FMD to combat the cancer of a patient by using the different ‘needs’ of cells.
Although normal cells need sugar to function, they can work at a much lower level, while cancer cells thrive at high levels of sugar.
“This is where nutrition and evolutionary biology meet oncology,” Dr. writes. Longo.
And although nutrition and nutrition have long been seen as less than therapies, the care team of a cancer patient must embrace a more holistic treatment plan-zowel the traditional oncology as the food-based therapies integrate.
“We have to reconsider this outdated mentality and instead offer patients the type 360-degree care and multidisciplinary team that can maximize the chance of a remedy, but can also improve the healthy lifespan,” Dr. wrote Longo.
The use of drugs only to treat cancer is like waging a war by using only the infantry. We have to fight tactically by thinking differently about the problem.
‘Nutrition was and is still seen by many doctors as a’ palliative ‘intervention, not really effective against the disease, but possibly useful to make the patient feel better or more in their care.
Alison Tierney (photo), a board -certified oncology dietitian, said the Daily Mail that there is growing scientific evidence to support fast diets
‘Fasting and fasting-mim-reasons are viewed in the same way and receive the same treatment as’ fruit and vegetables’ or’ have a healthy diet ‘.
Tierney told that the nutrition of the mail should support that the body’s ability to heal and restore – do not endanger it.
“FMD can be a complementary tool for preventing cancer or treatment for the right person, but it is not a one-size-fits-all solution.”
With breast cancer, the second most common cancer in women, a study of mice that had undergone an FMD in combination with chemotherapy had immune cells (activated by the diet) that invaded the tumor and killed the cancer cells.
Results indicated that the combination of food and chemo is more effective than just one of the two.
With colon cancer showed Dr. Longo that every type of fasting cancer cells is not weakened when they were used in addition to common chemotherapy medicine doxorubicin.
However, when used in combination with more targeted medicines for cancer, the FMD made the medicine more effective.
Results such as this support the research of Dr. Longo that shows that patients must have a personalized FMD, which causes the many coordinated changes in the body that kill cancer cells while protecting healthy cells against the toxic drugs.
With this personalized diet, calories, ingredients and frequency of food cycle are carefully designed and controlled to achieve the best anti-cancer effects, especially with regard to medicines that the patient uses.
“As a board-certified oncology dietician and survivor of cancer, I believe that food is one of the most empowerment tools that we have on this trip,” Tierney said.
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