Fasting One Of The Best Ways Of Beating Cancer
POSTED February 11, 2012 - 12:27 | POSTED BY munish2425
Last edited by Abhinandan Thaman on February 12, 2012 - 12:47
Impact of Fasting
Mice involved in the study were divided into two groups:
The results were based on animal studies conducted on mice. The experiment has so far shown its effectiveness in breast cancer, melanoma skin cancer, Glioma brain cancer and neuroblastoma.
Group I included those getting chemotherapy alone.
Group II were getting chemotherapy and also were made to fast.
The mice belonging to Group I, which were undergoing chemotherapy alone couldn' t survive from the cancer whereas the mice belonging to Group II, who were getting combination of Chemo and fasting survived.
Expert's Verdict
According to Valter Longo, the lead study author, “Tumor cells responded differently to the stress of fasting compared to normal cells. Instead of entering a dormant state similar to hibernation, the cells kept growing and dividing, in the end destroying themselves.”
“What we are seeing is that the cancer cell tries to compensate for the lack of all these things missing in the blood after fasting. It may be trying to replace them, but it cannot,” he added.
Experiment's results are in initial stages and quite interesting to pursue the research. Results of the prelim clinical trial that took place in California assessing the benefits of fasting for 2 days before and 1 day after Chemo for the patients suffering from a particular type of cancer, would be presented at an annual meeting of the (ASCO) American Society of Cancer Oncologists in June at Chicago.
Excited and confident of his study results, Professor Longo said, “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.”
The study was published in journal “Science Translational Medicine”.
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