Comments on: Dangers Of Ketogenic Diet – Why You Need To Avoid It If You Have Cancer

By: mark

mark — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:31:12 +0000

Humans Are Herbivores!!!!!! TRY OMNIVORES…..You are just another RADICAL VEGAN…

By: Simon Persson

Simon Persson — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:47:03 +0000

In reply to Sadoromi. Fat is essential but not in the levels you find in meat and dairy.

By: Sadoromi

Sadoromi — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 07:30:07 +0000

Meat causing cancer, fat is not essential.. I can’t believe something like this is still getting posted. You know that even herbivores eat high fat right? You’re basically ruining lives of poor desperate people who will listen to you with your vegan agenda, thinking they’re sick because of something they’ve been eating for centuries is bad and something they have barely ever ate is the reason humans have become sick lately. I hope no one sick ever reads this article.

By: Joseph Valentine

Joseph Valentine — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 18:06:43 +0000

In reply to Dave Martel.

You do not understand basic cellular metabolism. Ketogenic diets reduce blood glucose to the bare minimum; something no vegan diet does. A vegetarian diet may accomplish this, but for a vegan diet this is a practical impossibility. Vegatarian diets can be carb free if done correctly – as you will likely still need some non-vegan products to avoid consuming high glycemic-index foods like sugar-laden fruit, in orer to maintain a reasonable caloric intake.

The reason this matters is because Cancer cells can ONLY feed on glucose, and NOT on ketones. Every other cell in the human body, that is not cancerous, can feed of ketones and generate additional ATP via them. Thus deriving all energy from Ketones STARVES CANCER

Yes, a “Keto” diet STARVES cancer and the research has proven it (try looking at the scientific literature on the matter, many of which I cite below). If you would like to understand more, below is some real scientific research showing the proven effectiveness of Ketogenic diets at both preventing and treating cancer:

Schmidt, Melanie, et al. “Effects of a ketogenic diet on the quality of life in 16 patients with advanced cancer: A pilot trial.” Nutrition & metabolism 8.1 (2011): 54.

Poff, Angela M., et al. “The ketogenic diet and hyperbaric oxygen therapy prolong survival in mice with systemic metastatic cancer.” PloS one 8.6 (2013): e65522.

Otto, Christoph, et al. “Growth of human gastric cancer cells in nude mice is delayed by a ketogenic diet supplemented with omega-3 fatty acids and medium-chain triglycerides.” BMC cancer 8.1 (2008): 122.

Allen, Bryan G., et al. “Ketogenic diets enhance oxidative stress and radio-chemo-therapy responses in lung cancer xenografts.” Clinical cancer research (2013).

Maurer, Gabriele D., et al. “Differential utilization of ketone bodies by neurons and glioma cell lines: a rationale for ketogenic diet as experimental glioma therapy.” BMC cancer 11.1 (2011): 315.

Lv, Mengmeng, et al. “Roles of caloric restriction, ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting during initiation, progression and metastasis of cancer in animal models: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” PloS one 9.12 (2014): e115147.

Seyfried, Thomas N., et al. “Targeting energy metabolism in brain cancer with calorically restricted ketogenic diets.” Epilepsia 49 (2008): 114-116.

Seyfried, Thomas N., et al. “Is the restricted ketogenic diet a viable alternative to the standard of care for managing malignant brain cancer?.” Epilepsy research 100.3 (2012): 310-326.

Abdelwahab, Mohammed G., et al. “The ketogenic diet is an effective adjuvant to radiation therapy for the treatment of malignant glioma.” PloS one 7.5 (2012): e36197.

Woolf, Eric C., and Adrienne C. Scheck. “The ketogenic diet for the treatment of malignant glioma.” Journal of lipid research (2014): jlr-R046797.

Allen, Bryan G., et al. “Ketogenic diets as an adjuvant cancer therapy: History and potential mechanism.” Redox biology 2 (2014): 963-970.

Rieger, Johannes, et al. “ERGO: A pilot study of ketogenic diet in recurrent glioblastoma. Erratum in/ijo/45/6/2605.” International journal of oncology 44.6 (2014): 1843-1852.

By: Joseph Valentine

Joseph Valentine — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 17:58:21 +0000

In reply to Dave Martel.

Cells from cancer cell lines feed solely on blood glucose – a ketogenic diet reduces blood glucose to thabsolute minimum, so infact a ketogenic diet starves cancer cells, please review what researchers have shown in the literature below (or you could search Pubmed yourself, but I fight unlikely you even know what that is).

Again feeding only on glucose and lacking normal metabloic traits of non cancerous cells, is a fundamental trait of cells born from cancer lines. Additional as you can read about Keto’s effectiveness in the ever growing library of literature regarding cancer treatment via Ketogenic diets, and that the Ketogenic diets actually inhibit cancer, and show potential to treat cancer. AGAIN Since a Ketogenic diet reduces blood-glucose to an absolute minimum, the Ketogenic does indeed starve cancer cells; as researchers are now in agreement about. please take the time to look up any of the literature showing that this article is nonsense.