By admin Breast Cancer Detoxification Dr. Dalal Akoury High dose Vitamin C IV - alternative cancer treatment Insulin Potentiation Therapy Integrative Cancer Treatment July 5, 2014

Dietary manipulations that affect the growth of cancer cells

Cancerous cells just like other healthy body cells depend on steady supply of nutrients to be able to survive. Many nutritionists have opined that the best way to safely kill the cancerous cells is to starve them. However over the years it has never been easy to starve the cancer cells while supply the healthy cells with nutrients since they all depend on glucose. There are many researchers that went a step further to come up with safer ways to kill the cancer cells through starving them without hurting the healthy cells. Other loopholes have been found that have enabled nutritionists to come up with some effective dietary manipulations to help fight cancer without leaving the patients with life threatening side effects. These dietary approaches are meant to be a better alternative to cancer therapy of and other nutritionally afflicted diseases.

Some of the dietary approaches developed are still up to now being researched on to establish how effective they are. Some are even controversial as they are supported and rejected in equal measure.

Here are some of the dietary manipulations that are said to have an effect on cancer cells survival and growth.

Ketogenic Diet and cancer therapy

A ketogenic diet advocates for high quality proteins and healthy fats while it eliminates all but non-starchy vegetable carbohydrates. The argument behind the ketogenic diet is that: since cancer cells need glucose to survive and the carbohydrates turn to glucose in the body reducing the amount of glucose in your body starves the cancer cells. The healthy cells also rely on glucose for survival, fortunately our healthy cells are flexible enough to turn to ketone bodies for energy unlike the cancer cells that suffer defects that deny them this flexibility to turn to ketone sources of energy. This gives a loophole to starve the cancer cells by reducing the amount of glucose in the body.

The healthy cells will survive in absence of glucose as they can depend on ketone bodies for energy and live on however the cancer cells solely depend on glucose hence will be starved to death.

The ketogenic diet also minimizes the mTOR pathway that enhances cell proliferation. This diet that restricts all starchy vegetable carbohydrates but advocates for healthy fats and high quality is a better way to kill the cancer cells and should be adopted by anybody not only to treat cancer but as a daily feeding lifestyle as it is an ideal fat burning diet.

Calorie restriction and cancer and Cancer Therapy

Reduced calories intake has a positive impact in fighting cancer. Researchers have come out with findings to support this notion, however a more detailed argument is that when humans reduce the calories intake the expression of certain proteins that foster cancer cells survival will be limited.

Basically eating calories results in the calories being broken down to provide energy for building of proteins so when calorie intake is restricted there will be slowed rate of metabolism and the functions of most proteins will be limited. The researchers have also found out that reducing calories intake will help in minimizing over expression of Mcl-1 which is the protein linked to formation and growth of cancer cells.

Sugar is the sole energy for cancer and if sugar is restricted and replaced with another alternative: fat, there will be no fuel to help in the growth of cancer cells since they cannot switch to fat since they do not have the metabolic flexibility to change to other energy sources other than sugar fuel.

Amino acid restriction and cancer therapy

Amino acids are vital building blocks in our bodies and the cancerous cells are dependent on the amino acids for growth. Two of the amino acids these are phenylalanine and tyrosine have an ability to inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Most cancer cells are dependent on these two amino acids but melanomas, breast cancer and prostate cancer are greatly affected by restriction of these two amino acids. When the amino acids are restricted the growth of cancer cells is inhibited greatly. Restriction of amino acids has also induced apoptosis on many cancer cells. A research that was spearheaded by Dr. Meadows who is the Director of the Cancer Prevention & Research Center at Washington State University showed that amino acid restriction can be a very valid alternative cancer therapy.

Carbohydrate Restriction and cancer therapy

Carbohydrates are a major source of glucose and the cancer cells solely depend on the glucose for their survival. The cancer cells need more of the glucose than the healthy cells. When there are lots of carbohydrates in the diet the cancer cells are poised to grow and spread even faster. Since the cancer cells can only survive on the glucose when the carbohydrates are restricted they will not find enough glucose to feed on and will therefore starve to death. The normal cells are able to adapt to other sources of energy like fats in the body.

Finally…

Alternative cancer therapy are becoming the most popular options to cancer Cancer therapy. This is because the conventional Cancer therapy like chemotherapy are not only expensive to most cancer patients but also leave the cancer patients with lots of life threatening side effects.

To be able to live a cancer free life you need to get empowered on how you can keep away from the unhealthy habits that may put you at risk. You also need to know the better alternatives to cancer therapy

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Just contact Dr. Dalal Akoury(MD) who is dedicated to availing vital information about cancer to all those who seek them. Check her website for regular updates AWAREmed