Plan A -- Ketosis

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

Plan A -- The Ketogenic Cancer Diet

I know I need a plan to get more than a "stable" diagnosis from my doctor. I know that the chemo has had an effect but that it is not enough; after 20 months of treatment, I feel like I have stagnated, that I am treading water, in a holding pattern, just letting that little weekly injection keep me alive.

It just doesn't make sense.

As I said in my previous post, I always knew that cancer thrives and grows on sugar/glucose. But I didn't actually know how to kill those cancer cells until I learned about the ketogenic cancer diet. I learned about it  from a young man named Daniel. He has been on the diet for various health issues and recommended it to me. I started looking into it. YouTube is awash with videos about this diet. Doctors and patients and just regular folks are out there trying this and many are finding it successful.

Very simply, the idea is this: nearly all the healthy cells in our body have the metabolic flexibility to efficiently use fat, glucose and ketones to survive; but cancer cells LACK this metabolic flexibility and require large amounts of glucose. Cancer cells CANNOT survive on ketones.

The ketogenic diet creates ketones in the body, which replace glucose as fuel. When deprived of glucose, cancer cells DIE. Healthy cells, on the other hand, have the ability to utilize protein to make glucose and to use ketones as fuel. Our bodies are truly amazing if we are shown how to help them work efficiently.

If you want to learn more, I recommend that you go to YouTube and type in Ketogenic Diet for Cancer. You will find tons of info. And plenty of science to back up the theories.

I started the diet on Saturday, November 4. It's not easy but I'm determined to make a go of it.