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I like to hear your story about fasting, fasting mimicking and Cancer
Cancer | Last Active: Apr 12 10:57am | Replies (41)Comment receiving replies
@nannybb Personally I am not into alternative treatments unless they are backed by clinical trials in humans, not mice. I am aware that Mayo Clinic was holding such a human clinical trial but I don’t know what the outcome has been. Perhaps someone knows?
I was diagnosed with stage 4 appendix cancer in 2021 - a rare and aggressive disease. After substantial treatment including chemo and immunotherapy I have been NED (no evidence of disease) coming up for 4 years.
My oncologist is also an associate professor who was happy for me to try alternative treatments if I wished to as long as I worked with him so he could ensure what I was proposing to do wasn’t undermining my conventional treatment (which also included holistic remedies such as aromatherapy, massage, nutrition, exercise etc).
I ended up not using any alternative remedies. With me we found my best approach was not to fast but to eat the most nutritious food in about 6-8 small meals when I could.
I too am interested in what the latest research shows as my cancer isn’t curable and it will come back. Every tool we can add to the tool box is wonderful
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@isadora2021 there is quite a lot of studies on fasting and cancer. The studies are most in breast cancer and colon cancers. I took part in a study Standard on fast mimicking to manage Crohn's disease. These studies are looking at symptom control and minimizing side effects from chemotherapies.
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As a retired chemical engineer, I am also skeptical of diets and supplements that claim effectiveness against cancer, without human clinical trial supporting the claims.
That’s why my main intervention (I’m on active surveillance for localized prostate cancer) is based on the ERASE randomized clinical trial.
The conclusion of the ERASE randomized clinical trial is as follows;
“The ERASE trial demonstrated that HIIT increased cardiorespiratory fitness levels and decreased PSA levels, PSA velocity, and prostate cancer cell growth in men with localized prostate cancer who were under active surveillance.”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2783273
After 2.5 years of implementation of the ERASE trial protocol, my PSA density and PSA velocity are both moving in the negative direction and serial mpMRI’s have just recently indicated that all three of the original PIRADS lesions, found when I was diagnosed in October 2023, are no longer visible.
My VO2 Max has increased from 39.5 to 48.5, I’ve lost 30 lbs, my HDL has increased from 30 to 50, I no longer use (after 17 years) a CPAP machine for sleep apnea and all chronic inflammation joint pain is gone.
I’ll be 70 y/o in June and I can truly say that the human based ERASE randomized clinic trial results have proven to work in my case.