If you or someone you love has cancer, you try
and learn everything you can about how to beat it. And that's especially true
when it comes to aggressive, deadly cancers.
But for over 90 years there's been a treatment that has been proven again and again to be extraordinarily effective in treating difficult cancers, especially of the brain. Yet for all practical purposes it's been ignored by the mainstream.
Now, a group of researchers from the University of Florida have taken this amazing treatment out from behind the shadows, given it a bit of a twist, and are telling the world about it.
It's not hype, it's not snake oil, and it's not magic. It's pure and simple metabolic biology.
Fighting cancer with fat
"There is no financial incentive" and "no drug company that will help support this (research)." Dr. Adrienne Scheck, a professor of neurobiology at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, is talking about the ketogenic diet.
That's right, the high-fat, low-carb diet that Dr. Robert Atkins helped put on the map for losing weight.
This year, Dr. Scheck hopes to start a trial with 40 brain-cancer patients, who, in addition to standard therapies, will also start up on a highly supervised version of the diet.
The ketogenic diet isn't new, but then neither is the knowledge that tumors need glucose to grow. In fact, when doctors want to pinpoint cancerous tumors in a PET scan, they give patients dye mixed with glucose to track where in the body the highest amounts are being taken up.
Brain tumors especially need lots of energy from glucose. So it makes a lot of sense that "starving" them with this type of low-carb diet has produced some remarkable success stories.
And the latest one is coming from a team at the University of Florida.
Using mice who had a particularly fast-growing and deadly kind of brain tumor, called a gioblastoma, they were able to both slow the growth of the tumors and extend the rodents' lives by 50 percent!
And they did that by simply feeding the mice a diet in which only 10 percent of their calories came from carbohydrates – and that included plenty of healthy fats like coconut oil.
The Florida team hopes to start up a trial for this modified high-fat, low-carb diet in people with gioblastomas shortly. And while that may make their findings more "official," brain-tumor patients have been seeing remarkable results from similar diets for some time now.
Take 15-year-old Adam Sorenson, for example.
The Canadian teen was found to have an advanced and aggressive gioblastoma, which has an average survival time of around a year.
With few options left following surgery, his father's research led him to a dietician who started the boy up on a ketogenic diet with 80 percent fat, 15 percent protein and only 5 percent carbs.
That was over two and a half years ago, and his latest brain scan showed the tumor has not returned!
Adam is just one example of a long list of patients around the world who have been helped and even gone into remission on this diet after being told there was nothing else that could be done for them.
Believe me, if Big Pharma had a treatment with this kind of success rate, the news would have gone around the world -- and back -- already!
Just remember, a medical ketogenic diet is extremely low in carbs, and should be done only under expert supervision.
But with all we know about the benefits of eating this way, there's no reason not to start ditching some of those carbs from your plate right now, along with adding back plenty of good fats to your diet.
But for over 90 years there's been a treatment that has been proven again and again to be extraordinarily effective in treating difficult cancers, especially of the brain. Yet for all practical purposes it's been ignored by the mainstream.
Now, a group of researchers from the University of Florida have taken this amazing treatment out from behind the shadows, given it a bit of a twist, and are telling the world about it.
It's not hype, it's not snake oil, and it's not magic. It's pure and simple metabolic biology.
Fighting cancer with fat
"There is no financial incentive" and "no drug company that will help support this (research)." Dr. Adrienne Scheck, a professor of neurobiology at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, is talking about the ketogenic diet.
That's right, the high-fat, low-carb diet that Dr. Robert Atkins helped put on the map for losing weight.
This year, Dr. Scheck hopes to start a trial with 40 brain-cancer patients, who, in addition to standard therapies, will also start up on a highly supervised version of the diet.
The ketogenic diet isn't new, but then neither is the knowledge that tumors need glucose to grow. In fact, when doctors want to pinpoint cancerous tumors in a PET scan, they give patients dye mixed with glucose to track where in the body the highest amounts are being taken up.
Brain tumors especially need lots of energy from glucose. So it makes a lot of sense that "starving" them with this type of low-carb diet has produced some remarkable success stories.
And the latest one is coming from a team at the University of Florida.
Using mice who had a particularly fast-growing and deadly kind of brain tumor, called a gioblastoma, they were able to both slow the growth of the tumors and extend the rodents' lives by 50 percent!
And they did that by simply feeding the mice a diet in which only 10 percent of their calories came from carbohydrates – and that included plenty of healthy fats like coconut oil.
The Florida team hopes to start up a trial for this modified high-fat, low-carb diet in people with gioblastomas shortly. And while that may make their findings more "official," brain-tumor patients have been seeing remarkable results from similar diets for some time now.
Take 15-year-old Adam Sorenson, for example.
The Canadian teen was found to have an advanced and aggressive gioblastoma, which has an average survival time of around a year.
With few options left following surgery, his father's research led him to a dietician who started the boy up on a ketogenic diet with 80 percent fat, 15 percent protein and only 5 percent carbs.
That was over two and a half years ago, and his latest brain scan showed the tumor has not returned!
Adam is just one example of a long list of patients around the world who have been helped and even gone into remission on this diet after being told there was nothing else that could be done for them.
Believe me, if Big Pharma had a treatment with this kind of success rate, the news would have gone around the world -- and back -- already!
Just remember, a medical ketogenic diet is extremely low in carbs, and should be done only under expert supervision.
But with all we know about the benefits of eating this way, there's no reason not to start ditching some of those carbs from your plate right now, along with adding back plenty of good fats to your diet.
Seniors With High Cholesterol Live The Longest
For years it's been the most sacred cow in mainstream medicine. If you don't have ultra-low cholesterol numbers, you're practically a heart attack waiting to happen.
But now a new international study is throwing all that out the window.
Researchers have proven that seniors with high cholesterol are outliving their peers -- and it's not even close. It's a bombshell that has Big Pharma and the rest of the mainstream statins-pushers shaking in their boots.
And it's all based on one big secret about cholesterol that millions of patients are never being told about.
The cholesterol myth
If you want an 80 percent chance of living longer -- and blowing out more candles on that birthday cake -- it's time to ditch the statins.
That's what Dr. Uffe Ravnskov and his research team found when they crunched the data for 19 studies that included over 68,000 seniors.
In a nutshell, they discovered that those with the highest LDL cholesterol (supposedly the "bad" kind) were 80 percent more likely to outlive those with lower numbers.
On top of that, the researchers dared to suggest that maybe, just maybe, we should re-evaluate "guidelines recommending pharmacological reduction of LDL-C in the elderly."
Translation: There are millions of people taking statins now who shouldn't be.
Yeah, you think?
Well, the ink wasn't even dry on this study before the mainstream cholesterol crew had their knives out. They were looking for any... and I mean any...flaw they could find.
They even tried to claim that some of these high-cholesterol folks were probably taking statins.
Right -- so why was their cholesterol still so high? These guys would rather argue that the statins weren't working properly than acknowledge you shouldn't be taking them.
What nonsense. That's the kind of delusional thinking that mainstreamers twist when they're trying to keep the wolves away from their statin cash cow.
The fact is, not all LDL cholesterol is the same, and it's not all harmful. And that's a secret that's been kept away from lots of statins patients.
There's a big difference between small LDL and large LDL. And most large cholesterol studies (maybe all of them) have never measured the two types of LDL.
Instead, it all just gets lumped into one category that's come to be known as The Bad Cholesterol.
This issue is an important one because small LDL really is bad. It's not only small, it's also dense, and it responds to inflammation and oxidation by laying down excess plaque on artery walls.
Large LDL on the other hand, is often called fluffy because it floats along through your bloodstream and does no harm. To just say "LDL does this" or "LDL does that" without breaking it down into small and large varieties misses the way that LDL might or might not be doing harm.
But there is a way you can alter your diet to stack your LDL on the fluffy side and reduce the deadly, dense variety. And you don't have to pop a single pill.
Ditch any foods containing partially hydrogenated oils, and make sure you're getting plenty of high quality saturated fats (like coconut and olive oil), while avoiding simple carbs and fake sweeteners such as High Fructose Corn Syrup.
That's right, saturated fats actually promote healthy, large, fluffy LDL.
Now, tell that to the mainstream, stand back and watch their heads explode. Again.
Food
Allergies
If you have a child or grandchild with a
serious food allergy, you know how frightening it can be. Just one mislabeled meal at a
restaurant -- or a shared snack in the school cafeteria -- can turn into a
dangerous sit uation fast.
But now researchers from Australia may have found a way to stop potentially deadly allergic reactions before they ever start.
It's not a pill or a shot. It's just one simple diet change you can start making today.
Although anyone can have a food allergy, children are twice as likely as adults. And that's scary, because we all know kids aren't always careful about what they eat.
That's what makes this new research out of Monash University in Australia so important -- and potentially life-saving.
Researchers bred a group of mice to have severe allergies to peanuts -- the same allergies that cause deaths and hospitalizations every single year.
But once the mice were fed a diet rich in fiber, they became much less sensitive to peanuts. And their allergic reactions were a lot more mild.
And if you have a young person in your life who is allergic to peanuts, I bet that sounds awfully good.
Incorporating more fiber into our diets is easy. Lots of the foods we eat every day, like peas, raspberries, apples, and even oatmeal are loaded with it.
These fibers get broken down into short-chain fatty acids in our guts. And those fatty acids boost our production of something called dendritic cells.
And here's why that's important -- it's actually those dendritic cells that determine whether you have an allergic reaction or even go into anaphylactic shock. In fact, a lot of the immunotherapy research that's been conducted to treat allergies has focused on these dendritic cells.
Vitamin A is also important for producing dendritic cells, so it's important to get enough of it. Fortunately, some foods that are high in vitamin A also have fiber, like carrots, dark, leafy greens, lettuce, and even apricots.
So, basically, a diet that's heavy on fibers with vitamin A can help your immune system work properly. And it may keep you -- or a child you love -- from rushing to a hospital or for an EpiPen injection the next time you eat something you shouldn't.
The next step is going to be human trials. But if you ask me, there's no reason to wait. There's no downside to loading up on fiber and vitamin A now, and incorporating more foods that are rich in both into your meals.
If you know someone in your life with a serious food allergy (or who has a child with one) please take a moment to forward this email to them.
Just this one small change may make a big difference in controlling allergies -- and it could even save some lives.
Until next time, stay healthy and happy
But now researchers from Australia may have found a way to stop potentially deadly allergic reactions before they ever start.
It's not a pill or a shot. It's just one simple diet change you can start making today.
Although anyone can have a food allergy, children are twice as likely as adults. And that's scary, because we all know kids aren't always careful about what they eat.
That's what makes this new research out of Monash University in Australia so important -- and potentially life-saving.
Researchers bred a group of mice to have severe allergies to peanuts -- the same allergies that cause deaths and hospitalizations every single year.
But once the mice were fed a diet rich in fiber, they became much less sensitive to peanuts. And their allergic reactions were a lot more mild.
And if you have a young person in your life who is allergic to peanuts, I bet that sounds awfully good.
Incorporating more fiber into our diets is easy. Lots of the foods we eat every day, like peas, raspberries, apples, and even oatmeal are loaded with it.
These fibers get broken down into short-chain fatty acids in our guts. And those fatty acids boost our production of something called dendritic cells.
And here's why that's important -- it's actually those dendritic cells that determine whether you have an allergic reaction or even go into anaphylactic shock. In fact, a lot of the immunotherapy research that's been conducted to treat allergies has focused on these dendritic cells.
Vitamin A is also important for producing dendritic cells, so it's important to get enough of it. Fortunately, some foods that are high in vitamin A also have fiber, like carrots, dark, leafy greens, lettuce, and even apricots.
So, basically, a diet that's heavy on fibers with vitamin A can help your immune system work properly. And it may keep you -- or a child you love -- from rushing to a hospital or for an EpiPen injection the next time you eat something you shouldn't.
The next step is going to be human trials. But if you ask me, there's no reason to wait. There's no downside to loading up on fiber and vitamin A now, and incorporating more foods that are rich in both into your meals.
If you know someone in your life with a serious food allergy (or who has a child with one) please take a moment to forward this email to them.
Just this one small change may make a big difference in controlling allergies -- and it could even save some lives.
Until next time, stay healthy and happy
JD
Roma
The information on this blog is provided for educational
purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical care, and
medical advice and services are not being offered. If you have, or suspect you
have, a health problem you should consult your physician (preferably a
Naturopath).
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