Diet for Cancer Patients

What kind of food “should” cancer patients eat? That’s not hard to figure out, very do-able by logical consideration based on biology and chemistry.

So….

…. Let’s start with some basic facts.

Sometime way…way back, “they found a cancer”…

… which means: a bunch of originally normal cells have somehow gone wild.

They changed their looks, turned mobile, started traveling out (hence distant seeding called metastasis) and became “metabolically supercharged” (hence the rapid growth).

Cells inside the lump of cancer just keep on making copies of themselves uncontrollably.

This is true of the “original” cancer cells as well as those remaining cancer cells after “cancer treatment” – because they are all copies of the original “bad” cell.

No matter what form of treatment the cancer has been through, in the end, there will always be some cancer cells left behind, somewhere.

That’s why even if treatment response is incredibly good, we still say the cancer is merely “in remission”, we can’t guarantee “cure”.

Back to cancer cells’ personality of rapid growth…

That was how that “cancer” was noticed in the first place – they became a “lump” somewhere. So we take advantage of their rapid growth to make a diagnosis. 

We also take note of this fast metabolism to follow the progress of cancer treatment, to check on how much cancer tissue is still around after various sorts of treatment.

By introducing a tiny bit of radioactive glucose into the body, metabolically active cancer cells will pick it up faster and more than their neighborhood normal cells.

These will now show more radioactivity then their neighbors when a radiation-counter is placed over them.

The resulting picture is called a “PET scan”, and here’s an example.

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We can also introduce various drugs into the body periodically.

Being metabolically supercharged, cancer cells will consume more of these drugs than their “normal’ counterpart.

In the process, we hope they’ll get poisoned and die, more so than normal cells.

We call this ploy “chemotherapy”.

In short, by taking advantage of cancer cells’ fast metabolism and rapid growth, we can:

(1)make a diagnosis(2) follow treatment progress, and (3) device drug therapy.

To “reproduce faster than their normal relatives”, cancer cells’ DNA must first take the lead to do its job.

… and what job is that?

DNA’s double coils do 2 things – only!

(1)They make copies of themselves head to toe, this will start the process of making copies of the whole cell.

(2)They also snap open-and-shut here and there along the coil, “making windows” to expose their genetic codes for copying out. With them, various proteins can be “made to order”.

Some proteins will build the cell wall, the majority will stay “inside” to do the jobs this cell is supposed to do. These are called “enzymes”. They are what make this cell “come alive”.

 

With (1) and (2) going hand in hand, the manufacturing of another cancer cell is now complete, – fast!

To accomplish all these, the rapidly self-duplicating cancer cell will need lots of ”raw material”.

… and… what’s that?

Generally cell walls are made of sugars and proteins, hence “glyco-proteins”, and enzymes are all proteins.

Proteins are strings and strings of amino acids. So these then are the “raw material” cancer cells need in order to duplicate themselves.

There are only 20 different amino acids “in the world”. All living “things” make their specific proteins by stringing together different units of AA’s.

Now let’s take a look at the 3 major food groups we eat from day to day.

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Carbohydrate

Fat

ProteinGlycine Alanine Serine Thyronine Leucine

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Glucose

Flaxseed oil

Here are they are… components of our 3 food groups:

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ProteinGlycine Alanine Serine Thyronine Leucine

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These are individual units of amino acids (AA), the “raw material” cancer cells need for self duplication, and they can only get them from other proteins.

As you can see…

A high protein diet would provide lots of AA’s after the food has been “digested” and their component AA’s released.

Now rapidly growing cancer cells can easily use them to assemble their own specific proteins, be that their cell walls, or their interior enzymes.

So a high protein diet then would encourage cancer cells to duplicate themselves, hence the “cancer” will “grow”.

And these days, what do we offer our “cancer patients” for food?

“High protein foods”! – thus playing right into the hands of those metabolically active cancer cells.

Think of this scenario….

All too often, after “chemo” ended, cancer cells have been seriously stunned, and the patient becomes “skinny”.

Now friends, neighbors and relatives proceed to shower the patient with “nutritious protein foods”.

The patient gains weight and begins to “look better”.

Yet quietly behind the scene, remaining cancer cells are happily self-duplicating quickly as they enjoy luxurious feeding.

All too soon, the oncologist will pronounce, “your cancer is back.”

 Well, they didn’t quite “come back”, they were

“invited back”. So…what should cancer patients eat?

Rule one:

Eat small quantities, watch weight diligently to stay thin.

When the body is calorically “deprived”, cancer cells are more deprived.

Rule two:

Cut off protein-rich foods to include all meats, milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream so as to deprive cancer cells what they “want”, i.e. nitrogen.

This approach is of particular importance for patients with sex organ cancers – I.e., that of breast, ovarian and prostate.

By avoiding above noted foods, the flow of estrogen (from milk, yogurt, cheese) and testosterone (from beef, pork) will be cut off.

Now the usual medications designated estrogen and testosterone blockers will have a much better chance at doing what they are supposed to do.

In summary then, to “co-exist” with those remaining cancer cells, to suppress their proliferation, and to “outlive” them without further “treatment”, one needs to “pay for it” and give up something!

“Go carb”, enjoy vegetarianism, and eat small! 

Now wasn’t that easy?