How Can a Ketogenic Diet Help Cancer Treatment?
Much like most things in cancer, including chemotherapy, biologic agents, and even radiation therapy, we do not quite know exactly how a ketogenic diet works. However, there are several potential mechanisms:- First and foremost a ketogenic diet may work simply through decreasing available glucose to tumor cells. Many decades ago, Otto Warburg stated that a hallmark of cancer was the uptake of glucose by cancer cells.5 Cancer cells rely on glucose for energy; therefore any method of limiting this may help to “starve” cancer cells. Recent data from several universities, including Johns Hopkins have shown that in brain tumors, the higher a patient’s blood glucose level, the lower their survival.6,7
A right frontal lobe glioblastoma multiforme. A devastating disease. Retrospective data has shown that in patients with GBMs, the higher their blood glucose, the worse they do with treatment.
Source: http://www.cavemandoctor.com/2013/01/01/an-introduction-a-ketogenic-diet-for-cancer/
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