Ketosis and cancer
This is a good interview with Dr. Dominic D’Agostino, PhD, by Dr. Mercola. D’Agostino discovered ketosis benefits while working on a project for the Navy involving problems that SEAL divers were having with brain oxygen when using rebreather SCUBA gear.
Interesting views on calorie, carb and protein restriction. Also good info on self testing blood glucose and blood ketones, as opposed to urine strips. He found that there is a great response against cancer when ketosis is combined with hyperbaric chamber sessions. A very informative video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RntTZR4UJUQ
EDIT: Added the overview from Mercola's site:
This is a good interview with Dr. Dominic D’Agostino, PhD, by Dr. Mercola. D’Agostino discovered ketosis benefits while working on a project for the Navy involving problems that SEAL divers were having with brain oxygen when using rebreather SCUBA gear.
Interesting views on calorie, carb and protein restriction. Also good info on self testing blood glucose and blood ketones, as opposed to urine strips. He found that there is a great response against cancer when ketosis is combined with hyperbaric chamber sessions. A very informative video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RntTZR4UJUQ
EDIT: Added the overview from Mercola's site:
Story at-a-glance
A mounting body of research suggests most cancers are highly responsive to therapeutic ketosis—a natural physiologic state induced during prolonged states of decreased glucose—in combination with calorie restriction
One way to achieve this is to use a ketogenic diet that retains non-starchy vegetable carbohydrates, replacing them with high amounts of healthy fats and adequate amounts of high-quality protein
Healthy cells have the metabolic flexibility to adapt from using glucose to using ketone bodies. Cancer cells lack this metabolic flexibility, so when you eliminate carbs, which are metabolized to glucose, you effectively starve cancer of its primary fuel source.
Intermittent fasting, where you gradually restrict the window of time during which you eat food down to about six to eight hours per day aids in the transition from burning carbs to burning fat
The ketogenic diet by itself can extend survival in animal models of metastatic cancer, but recent research shows that when it’s combined with hyperbaric oxygen therapy three times per week, there is a significant additive effect
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