Something damages the mitochondria — something like carcinogens, insulin overload, radiation from X-rays, inflammation, viruses, etc. — so the mitochondria are not able to make enough energy to sustain the cell using the normal method, so the cell reverts to an ancient method of generating energy: fermentation.
Generating energy from fermentation takes a lot more glucose because it’s less efficient. A lot less efficient. And it also produces byproducts that begin damaging the cell.
This damage can eventually cause uncontrolled proliferation — the cell begins to divide out of control. This is cancer.
This way of looking at cancer has accumulated a huge amount of evidence. And it also makes cancer’s weakness very obvious: Cancer requires a lot of sugar to survive.
Metabolic therapy cuts off the fuel supply of cancer cells, weakening them and even killing them.
The treatment involves a combination of fasting, a low-carb, high fat diet, and sometimes drugs. It has proven to be effective at shrinking tumors, and it is far less damaging to the body than other cancer therapies. In fact, it usually improves a patient’s health.
Learn more about it here:
Book: Tripping Over the Truth by Travis Christofferson
Textbook: Cancer as a Metabolic Disease by Thomas Seyfried
Book: The Metabolic Approach to Cancer by Nasha Winters
Video: Cancer's Hidden Weakness Revealed
Video: The Cancer Doctor: "This Common Food Is Making Cancer Worse!" (long interview with Thomas Friedman)
Video: New study reveals specific insights on ketosis as a cancer therapy
Scientific paper: Roles of caloric restriction, ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting during initiation, progression and metastasis of cancer in animal models: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Scientific paper: Successful application of dietary ketogenic metabolic therapy in patients with glioblastoma: a clinical study
Scientific paper: Clinical research framework proposal for ketogenic metabolic therapy in glioblastoma
