Cancer can only metabolise glucose

Carbohydrates of all types turn into glucose.

Humans can live without eating carbohydrates.

Going strict zero carb (carnivore) will stop feeding the cancer extra fuel, reducing the growth rate. For some people this is enough so their own bodies can get ahead of the cancer.

This makes carnivore a great ADJUNCT to a cancer treatment plan. By itself carnivore will not cure cancer.

Without medical intervention the body will still make glucose, which cancer can use. This production is at a much lower rate then eating carbs. There is a human trial testing cancer protocol that presses of zero carb eating with pulses of drugs that stop the bodies glucose production. The studies that use this focus on glioblastomas in the brain and show very promising results (in humans, not mice)

Tldr: carnivore doesn’t cure cancer, but it doesn’t enable cancer either, it couldn’t hurt to go zero carbohydrate while fighting cancer.

— a shower thought, since I’ve been talking to my friends about cancer seemingly over and over. Every body knows somebody fighting cancer

  • xepMEnglish
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    1 month ago

    There is an interesting theory that cancer is related to the electrical potential of the cell. To quote the paper Gerald Pollack has written on the theory:

    How might these features of electrical potential relate to the issue of cancer?

    While the magnitude of the stable electrical potential may vary among different cells, typically it lies in the range of -50 mV to -100 mV. When we were carrying out electrophysiological measurements during early career, we knew that when the electrical potential was of smaller magnitude, the cell might be struggling to stay alive and it was time to switch to specimens with more normal electrical potentials. Others knew the same. That experience squares with the idea of the electrical potential as a critical feature of cell function. For the cell to operate properly, it must maintain a robust negative electrical potential.

    Thus, a striking clue comes from the electrical potential of cancer cells. That potential magnitude is consistently small. Compared to the electrical potential of most normal cells, cancer cells exhibit potentials on the order of only 10 - 15 mV. That low electrical potential is seen over diverse cancer-cell types [31-35]. It is a characteristic feature.

    There is also some evidence for deuterium-depleted water being related to cancer pathology. Water seems to play a part in cancer. It’s important to note that these are both just theories, but they are also both consistent with the Warburg hypothesis.

    Hopefully we get a better view into the disease state sooner than later. A holistic approach may be far better than the reductionist way of seeing cancer as a genetic condition.

    • jet@hackertalks.comOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      It is a appealing theory, but what makes this hard for me to get behind is how I can experience a effect.

      Keto I can see and measure

      Carnivore I can see and measure

      This electrical charge of cells and the interaction with heavy water feels interesting on a academic level, but nothing I can experiment and see.

      I’m onboard with getting people into the context they evolved for, so in that vein grounding makes perfect sense.

      • xepMEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Agreed.

        I’m not sure how we can experiment with the various kinds of water mentioned in this body of research at all. We can do the best we can with our current understanding by providing our body with sufficient radiant energy from exposure to sunlight, eating food with low deuterium (primarily animal sources), and grounding. However I’ve found it impossibly difficult to quantify, and so when asked about it I can only say that there’s no harm in trying.