Stage 4 NHL here, Tried for a 21 day fast last month, got to 16 days and felt a weird chest pain and abandoned it. Lost 28 pounds, gained about 10 of that back in water weight but maintaining a good amount of the fat loss. I had blood work the week after my fast my White blood cell count improved a little and my LDH lymphoma markers dropped about 3 points. I felt like some of my lymph nodes changed a little but it might just be in my head next scans in November and plan to fast one week a month until then. I also hope to lose another 20 lbs. This October will be my 1 year cancer anniversary so far no drugs have been taken all supplements and healthy eating and my cancer has not grown. But I am lucky in that I have low grade NHL which is treatable if I need chemo or immunotherapy.
As a side note since you have a blood cancer I would focus on doing things that can directly effect your blood serum levels of cancer fighting products. For example drink green tea every day but especially on empty stomachs as it reaches blood circulation much quicker and at a higher dose, have you thought about high dose vitamin C IVs hitting it very hard for a couple of weeks everyday? High dose melatonin at 40-50mg at night The other big one that a lot of people have had a lot of success with is juicing 6lbs of carrot juice a day it has a substance in it called Falcarinol and 1.2 liters of carrot juice delivers a potent serum blood level of it that’s the protocol I’m currently on and we will see how it goes.
Wishing you the best and will pray for a miracle recovery for you!
So very sorry about your diagnosis. I’m a reporter who writes about fasting, and I’m sorry to say we have no science to show that fasting can reverse leukemia. To date, the only type of cancer that appears to have been completely reversed by fasting–and that has been reported in the peer-reviewed scientific literature–is follicular lymphoma.
Where fasting does appear to help against several types of cancer, however, is when fasting in combination with chemotherapy, radiation, or immunotherapy. The scientist who has done the most work on this is Valter Longo at the Univ. of Southern California. You might check out articles about him online or his book, The Longevity Diet. (I also have a chapter on him and his work in my new book on fasting.) The basic protocol is to fast or eat a special fasting-mimicking diet for about 2 days before each chemo-/radio-/immuno-therapy and continue until about 1 day after the treatment. Doing so minimizes the side effects of the chemo and appears to increase its potency against the cancer. Trials are still ongoing, though.
One thing to keep in mind is that Longo and other researchers have found in lab animals that fasting tends to slow the progression of most cancers for a while, but the cancer usually finds a way around the fast. I’m sorry I don’t have more uplifting news, but you might explore with an enlightened oncologist whether fasting in combination with conventional therapies like chemo would be helpful in your case. Best of luck!
Lots of good science behind it as far as cancer feeding off of sugars and that cancer cells aren’t adapted to a fasting atmosphere and how autophagy can cause apoptosis so maybe not 100% clear of it but a better fighting chance I think. The Science of Fasting documentary in the last 15-20 minutes of it discusses its effect on cancer specifically. Good luck! I just started mine on 9/1.
God’s with you . 100 vegitable diet will help fight the disease . Vegitarian blood helps kills cancer cells in vitro. Fasting can help autophagy which might be beneficial to the cancer chemo and vegitarian blood kills cancer cells. If autophagy doesn’t help chemo then slowly eat more vegitable protein . No dairy what so ever no sugar what so ever Flow Dr. David Sinclair !!!!!!for more in autophagy and cancer @davidsinclair for more
One fringe cancer treatment is lowering one’s deuterium levels. Look up low deuterium foods and deuterium depleted water. Pork fat - lard - is very low.
Just found this by googling https://www.consciousbreathing.com/podcast/episode-6-treating-cancer-with-breathing-co2-and-deuterium-depleted-water-with-dr-que-collins/