1. Diet for Cancer Patients

2. 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.

3. 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).

4. 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”.

5. 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.

6. 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.

8. 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”.

9. 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.

10. To “reproduce faster than their normal
relatives”, cancer cells’ DNA must
first take the lead to do its job.
… and what job is that?

11. 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”.

12. 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.

13. 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
Protein
Glycine 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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Protein
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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.

16. 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”.

17. 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….

18. 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.

19. 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?

20. Rule one:
Eat small quantities, watch weight diligently to
stay thin.
When the body is calorically “deprived”,
cancer cells are more deprived.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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!

24. Now wasn’t that easy?