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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
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.
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@handera That’s very interesting. Congratulations and I’m so happy for you.
While the ERASE trial was for prostate cancer that makes sense to me. I too made exercise a priority (including HIIT) to the extent I was well enough to do it both during my treatment and during the 4 years since I stopped treatment.
I have also been under surveillance. My scans and blood tests have recently increased to 6 monthly from quarterly. My smartwatch has been so helpful in that I can see the progress in my health metrics in real time between scans.
@handera Thanks so much for sharing this information. I had read that HIIT increases mitochondrial function which is the key to your immune system so the fact that it is helping you is wonderful news.
Recently I have increased my walking speed with light hands weights to get into the HIIT zone, it works and boy do I feel great afterwards.
Your positive results with HIIT make me think I am on the right track. The Keto and metabolic diets are just too hard to maintain long term and probably only good for certain types of cancer while HIIT is great for all of them.
There is a lot of research by Dr. Valter Longo on the Fasting Mimicking Diet when used during chemo treatments but not sure in the long run, once you are out of treatment how much it benefits us.
Thanks again, you made my day:)
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@handera That is excellent!