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Fasting & Cancer?
Fasting & Cancer?
22 Sep 2021
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Does fasting have any impact on cancer progression? There is very little research on this subject. But what do we know so far?
Dr Greger's Webinar

In 2019, Dr Greger presented three webinars on fasting: Intermittent Fasting — Fasting for Disease Reversal — Fasting and Cancer. The videos from the first two webinars are now available for free at NutritionFacts website. As of September 2021, videos from the last webinar ("Fasting and Cancer") are only available for digital download for $20. When these videos are eventually published at NutritionFacts, I'll add them to this article. List of videos by Dr Greger from the webinar:

How Effective is Chemotherapy
How Much Does Chemotherapy Improve Survival
Fasting for Cancer: What about Cachexia?
Fasting During Chemotherapy and Radiation
Fasting During Chemotherapy Put to the Test
Fasting-Mimicking Diet During Chemotherapy
What to Eat After a Cancer Diagnosis
A Case of Stage 3 Cancer Reversal with Fasting
Spontaneous Regression of Cancer with Fasting
Fasting to Detox
How to Die a Good Death
VSED: The Benefits of Fasting for Life Termination
VSED: The Downsides of Fasting for Life Termination

Dr Klaper

Point number 7 in Dr Klaper's article Stage 4 Breast Cancer: Constructive Actions is fasting! He says,

Fasting fosters the appearance of sirtuin molecules in cells that help stop cancer growth. Consider a fast-mimicking dietary program such as the one presented by Dr. Valter Longo at USC wherein, for 5 days each month, salads are eaten exclusively to reduce calorie intake below 500 calories per day.

Since Dr Longo’s work demonstrates that fasting increases beneficial responses to chemotherapy in people with breast cancers, if any further chemotherapy treatments are planned – and if one’s body is not too fragile – consider consuming water-only for the 24 – 48 hours before receiving the intravenous or oral treatment.

For more about fasting, consider a private consultation with me, by phone or web-based video. Call the Front Desk at TrueNorth Health Center: 1-707-586-5555, M-F, 9a to 4p (California time) to arrange a consultation.

I’ve supervised many hundreds of fasts and offer a 55-minute On Demand Video and DVD, “Fasting: Safe & Effective Use of an Ancient Healing Therapy.”

Dr Goldhamer: True North Health Center

Dr Alan Goldhamer founded the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. This center has been conducting medically guided water-only fasts and juice fasts for over 30 years. After the fast is over, TrueNorth physicians and nutritionists advocate a Whole Food Plant-Based diet, especially SOS-Free (devoid of salt, oil and sugar). Dr Klaper worked at True North for many years.

Research papers: Medical / scientific evidence for benefits for fasting is scant. In 2015, TrueNorth published a case report in British Medical Journal. In 2018, a followup report was published at the 3-year mark. These case reports centered around 1 patient whose cancer remained in regression for three years after medically supervised fasting at TrueNorth. Dr Alan Goldhamer summarizes these case reports (3 mins, YouTube).

Note: Fasting could be a potentially dangerous exercise for somebody with a serious illness. Please consult with TrueNorth Health Center, Santa Rosa, California, for medically-supervised fasts.

Documentary: Science of Fasting
(56 mins, 2016) Science of Fasting

Also available on Amazon (free with Prime; 400+ reviews; 4.5 rating). Towards the end, they explain why 1-day or 2-day fasts are likely to be introduced as a preparatory step for chemotherapy in US hospitals.

More Info

Cancer and Fasting / Calorie Restriction (article at UCSF) summarizes research till 2016. A more recent article: Can fasting help fight cancer? (2019).

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