Short Periods Of Fasting Shown To Reduce Growth Of Cancerous Tumors

A recent article in Science Translational Medicine revealed evidence of a “significant” reduction in the growth of cancerous tumors subjected to short cycles of fasting.  Fasting was found to improve the effect of chemotherapy but also worked without drug treatment in cultured cancer cell lines and in mice.

“A limited time of exposure to a severely restricted diet…can protect yeast, mammalian cells, mice, and possibly patients from the toxic effects of oxidative and chemotherapeutic agents without causing chronic weight loss,” wrote University of Southern California professor of gerontology and biological sciences Valter D. Longo, PhD and colleagues.  “Fasting apparently protects normal cells by reallocating energy toward maintenance pathways from reproduction and growth processes when nutrients are scarce or absent.  This switch to a protected mode occurs only in normal cells…because oncogenes prevent the activation of stress resistance.  A way to beat cancer cells may not be to try to find drugs that kill them specifically but to confuse them by generating extreme environments, such as fasting that only normal cells can quickly respond to.”

“Fasting has a long history of being used to improve physical and mental condition,” say boomer generation health experts Dian Griesel, Ph.D., and Tom Griesel, authors of the new books TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust (April 2011, BSH) and The TurboCharged Mind (January 2012, BSH).   “Enlightened fasting provides essential nutrients while drastically reducing calories.  This condition allows the body to rapidly utilize excess body fat for energy, and initiate a primal survival mechanism resulting in repair and normalization of physiological functions.  Conditioning our bodies and increasing efficiency through proper diet and lifestyle is the key to optimal health.”

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