Fasting, Is It Worth It?
The Cancer Pod: Integrative Medicine Talk
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Does fasting during treatment make it work better? Does overnight fasting stave off recurrence? How does fasting affect cancer in general? Tina & Leah talk about the benefits (and risks!) of limiting food intake during and after cancer treatment.
Links we mentioned on this episode and other cool stuff:
Fasting alongside neoadjuvant chemotherapy in those with breast cancer (2013)
Review of the “effect of fasting on cancer” (2022)
Prolonged overnight fasting in breast cancer (2016) Conclusion: “Prolonging the length of the nightly fasting interval (>13 hours) may be a simple, nonpharmacologic strategy for reducing the risk of breast cancer recurrence.”
Overnight fasting improves blood sugar control (2015)
The chemo trial (10 patients) that started it all: fewer side effects with fasting! (2009)
Into mechanisms? Here’s some fasting biochemistry (2015)
Glioma (glioblastoma) and fasting- you’ll lose weight, but it could help too. (2021)
Stage III low-grade follicular lymphoma regressed with fasting (2015)
Protein restriction improves immunotherapy (2018)
Amino acid depletion as therapy for cancers (2021)
Potential metabolic targets in triple-negative breast cancer (2020)
Rebecca Katz’s Magic Mineral Broth recipe
Valter Longo, PhD - Originator of the Fasting Mimicking Diet
Autophagy - How cells recycle themselves
Dr. Kaczor’s art
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