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  • "A Case of Stage 3 Cancer Reversal with Fasting"

  • After a cancer diagnosis, the focus is understandably

  • on monitoring the spread and resurgence of the cancer,

  • but patients often also want to know what additional steps

  • they themselves can take to support their body's fight.

  • Previously, I addressed what to eat after a cancer diagnosis.

  • What about eating nothing at all?

  • Fasting is purported toamelioratecancers,

  • but to support such claims, they cite studies like this

  • on castrated mice.

  • That's because there are no human studies of efficacy,

  • though there are a few case reports.

  • For example: “Water-only fasting and an exclusively plant foods diet

  • in the management of... follicular lymphoma.”

  • Traditional chemotherapy has been

  • the mainstay of treatment for follicular lymphoma.

  • But in the majority of patients, the cancer surges back

  • within a few years, and the chemo is associated with immediate

  • and enduring toxicities, including secondary malignancies,

  • meaning new cancers caused by the chemo drugs themselves,

  • raising the question of whether chemotherapy

  • should be abandoned for the disease.  

  • So anyway, a 42-year-old woman presented

  • to her primary care provider with a palpable mass

  • in her groin and was immediately sent for a CT scan.

  • Surgical biopsy confirmed the diagnosis

  • of a low-grade follicular lymphoma.

  • They then found involvement in the lymph nodes in her armpit,

  • which would make it stage 3, meaning spread throughout the body.

  • Because it didn't appear to be aggressive,

  • she was just advised to follow-up

  • every three months to monitor its spread.

  • But she didn't want to just sit around.

  • So, she contacted the TrueNorth Health Center in California

  • to explore medically supervised, water-only fasting.

  • She had never smoked tobacco, but she had consumed

  • the Standard American Diet; so they started her

  • on a whole food plant foods diet free

  • of added salt, oil, and sugar.

  • Then, she did 21 days on water only, before transitioning back to a diet

  • of minimally processed plant foods, including fresh, raw fruits

  • and vegetables, steamed and baked vegetables,

  • whole grains and legumes, and about an ounce a day

  • of nuts and seeds.

  • Okay, so what happened?

  • On physical exam, her cancerous lymph nodes seemed to be shrinking,

  • and indeed, on CT scan, her enlarged nodes shrunk

  • up to 90 percent and no longer seemed to be active.

  • Before and after.

  • What could it have been?

  • She did lose weight, about 20 pounds, but follicular lymphoma does not appear

  • to be associated with obesity,

  • nor does BMI appear to affect clinical outcomes.

  • It's possible the plant-based diet alone helped.

  • Follicular lymphoma is the second most common type

  • of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which itself

  • is the most common type of blood cancer in adults.

  • Higher intakes of dietary fiber, whole grains, and several fruits

  • and vegetables are reported to reduce

  • the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, whereas animal-derived proteins

  • and fat in meat and dairy may increase it.

  • A dietary pattern high in meats, fats, and sweets

  • was associated with three times the risk of follicular lymphoma,

  • or just the fat and meat was associated

  • with up to a fivefold higher risk. But why?

  • The thought that foods of animal origin may increase

  • the risk of blood cancers originated from the frequent finding

  • of an increased incidence among people who are occupationally exposed

  • to animals and meats, like livestock and poultry farmers, butchers,

  • and slaughterhouse workers.

  • It must be acknowledged that animal foods are a potential source

  • of infection by cancer-causing viruses.

  • But it may just be the animal protein.

  • Excessive consumption of animal protein

  • may encourage malignant changes through chronic persistent stimulation.

  • The thought is that the continuous exposure

  • to these foreign proteins may act like a chronic irritant.

  • The animal protein theory is bolstered by the fact

  • that straight proteincasein milk protein

  • increases the number of lymphomas in rats,

  • but that doesn't mean the same applies to people.

  • Maybe it's the hormones and antibiotics contained in meat

  • or just the saturated fat, which may both impair

  • the immune system and promote chronic inflammation,

  • which may play a role in lymphoma?

  • Now, it appears to just be animal fat consumption;

  • so, maybe it's just something building up in the animal fat?

  • There may be a link between exposure to industrial pollutants

  • and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and foodespecially meat, milk, and fish

  • is the immediate source of almost

  • all dioxins and PCBs in the general population.

  • Dioxin-like pollutants build up in animal fat,

  • which can then be passed along to consumers.

  • Vegetarians may only be exposed

  • to about 2 percent of the dioxin dose

  • compared to the general population.

  • The highest single levels in the U.S. have been found

  • in chicken, but thankfully the contamination levels

  • are declining in all meats across the board.

  • Furthermore, consumers may further reduce exposures

  • to dioxin-like compounds by trimming fat before and after cooking

  • and by thoroughly draining fat from cooked meat.

  • What about buying organic meat?

  • The title kind of gives it all away.

  • When it comes to carcinogenic contaminants,

  • the differences between organically and conventionally produced meats

  • were surprisingly minimal, exceeding the maximum limits

  • regardless of what kind of meat we buy.

  • Strikingly, not only does the consumption

  • of organically produced meat not diminish the carcinogenic risk,

  • but for some meat, it appeared even worse.

  • What can decrease your exposure to fat-soluble pesticides is fiber.

  • And then, our good gut flora can turn fiber into butyrate,

  • which is absorbed back into our body from the colon

  • and acts as a tumor suppressor, demonstrated in more than

  • one hundred published studies, including protecting against lymphoma.

  • It also has potent anti-inflammatory effects.

  • That may help explain why fruit and vegetable consumption

  • has not only been associated with decreased risk

  • of developing lymphoma, but also been linked to improved survival.

  • Maybe it's all the antioxidants in plant foods,

  • which appear protective when it comes to follicular lymphoma,

  • but not necessarily when in supplement form.

  • Vitamin C intake from foods, for example,

  • may be protective but not from supplements.

  • So, maybe the reason the risk of lymphomas and cancers

  • of the bone marrow tissues are significantly lower

  • in vegetarians and vegans is not just

  • because of what they're avoiding,

  • but all the goodies that they're getting more of.

  • The phytochemicals and antioxidants in fruits and vegetables

  • may inhibit tumor progression via a variety of mechanisms

  • beyond just the potential adverse effects of meat.

  • So, given the link between fruit and vegetable intake

  • and lymphoma survival, maybe a lymphoma diagnosis can be

  • an important 'teachable' moment to improve diet in patients.

  • That certainly seemed to be the case here.

  • At her six and nine-month follow-up, she reported strict compliance

  • with her whole food plant-based diet, and her lymph nodes

  • remained unpalpable.

  • Okay, but this was published in 2015.

  • How's she doing now? We'll find out next.

"A Case of Stage 3 Cancer Reversal with Fasting"

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A Case of Stage 3 Cancer Reversal with Fasting(A Case of Stage 3 Cancer Reversal with Fasting)

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    林宜悉 に公開 2023 年 04 月 12 日
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