Podcast: Fasting and Cancer (Part I)

I Had bladder removed 10 years ago (cancer). The cancer returned last year,in september,. I was told that it was very agressive and chemotherapy was necessary,to shink the cancer so that it could be able to be operated on. Was advised that it would need 6, possibly 8, cycles of chemotherapy. After 1 cycle it had shrunk by half.Ater 2nd cycle it was almost gone. I stopped chemo there and had kidney and lymph nodes removed. During chemo I fasted 24 hrs before treatment and 20 hours after; drank plenty of water only. I am told I am completely cancer free. Thanks to you and other doctors on utube who advocate fasting. Ifeel I have escaped the bone yard and maybe years of chemo sickness. Good luck everybody.

There are a few substances cancer can thrive on: glucose, ketone bodies (not every cancer) and glutamine (all cancers). Even if you deprive yourself of all foods, glutamine is always there (we all have muscles) because your immune cells cannot survive without it either. Fasting is miraculous in that it facilitates autophagy which is a fantastic tool to clear the field of all the damaged DNA and tissue and allow the immune system to work more efficiently. There is a French cancer survivor active on YT (Guy Tenenbaum) who at the time of his prostate cancer diagnosis already had some bone metastases to his ribs. He is pretty well off so he traveled to the US and spoke to best specialists he could find but they all agreed that even chemo was not an option in his case any more and that he had max 3 months to live. He started water fast and kept going for approx. 41 days and then slowly reintroduced foods but adapted OMAD lifestyle. It's been years and he's cancer free. Fasting is powerful indeed.

Appreciate this video. I’ve been fasting people with Cancer for 12 years with great success. Clinically monitoring and still hard to get people to open their minds to this truth 🙏🏻❤️

Fasting even stops me getting a cold and somehow stopped my back pain, amazing how I also have more energy than ever, Mainstream media really want people fat and reliant on sugary cheap food, best wishes fellow fasters and great video, peace

Thank you for covering this Very important and puzzling problem.

Great info. Thanks.

Informative. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you

It blows my mind that people don't water fast with chemo these days. Extreme circumstances (having cancer) calls for extreme measures (fasting)

thanks Dr. G.

"We are fearfully & wonderfully made..." (Psalms 139:14)

Went through chemo fasting at least 48 hrs before no dizziness or vomiting symptoms.

Very interesting

Beautiful work

I was feeling extreme fatigue and weight gain at the end of 2015. I switched to a Whole Foods Plant Based Diet in 2016 after watching videos from Dr. Greger. I was Whole Food Plant Based for about 98% of my calories until the beginning of 2021. I started to eat more vegan junk food and miss key foods like selenium, garlic, and iodine. I felt extreme fatigue in 2022. I went to an Endocrinologist in 2023 and they found a tumor, which was later declared a grade 4 through a biopsy in June 2023. During this time I started to eat more vegan junk, especially during chemo. In February 2024, they found more tumors in my brain. After that, I switch back to a completely WFPB diet, which specifically targets cancer growth such as leeks, Garlic, broccoli, and kale. My energy has returned dramatically. I walked 7 miles easily the yesterday. The energy I feel is similar to the energy I felt when I first went Whole Food Plant Based vegan. I have been eating significantly less during this recent change back to a stricter WFPB diet, because my appetite has decreased dramatically. This worries me, but it could be a beneficial effect as Dr. Greger is saying.

Everything happens to & from a cellular level. We all have good & bad cells. When we fast , our body searches for some nutrients & when they can’t find food , they good cells start eating the bad cells, weak cells & defected cells. I am a 40 yr old male going into a 40 hr water fast. I was diagnosed at a young age that I have hypopituitarism. I take Prednisone & Levothyroxin daily. I’m praying that someday I can be medication free. I seen a video on YouTube , it was talking about fasting and in the comments section I seen a man put he has the same cancer/disease I have that he Intermittent fasted for 2 weeks. He went to his doctor and they told him “ you don’t need to take anymore medication.”!! 😮. I was shocked I seen that. 😳

I think fasting would be the way to go, from cancer patients I’ve heard of.

Hospitals, doctors offices and schools should be places where good nutrition is taught and provided not places that contribute to disease and obesity. It is crazy the hospitals are feeding people the very food that caused the heart disease, high blood pressure or cancer that they are treating. Every person in the hospital should receive some nutrition education before being released. Every doctor visit should be an opportunity to educate patients about how food choices impacts their health outcomes. The fact that doctors do not get nutrition training as part of their training makes no sense. Medicare and Medicaid should require nutrition education as part of patient care. Focus should be on food choices. Fasting should be investigated as a treatment for disease.

I've recently read that all cancers are methionine dependent. Low meth. Duets are very restricted and difficult to maintain but FASTING not only deprives cancer of energy from all sources but especially methionine its main food preference.

I’ve recommended IF to several of my cancer patients, and they’ve had great results in terms of decreased inflammation and side effect relief from chemo. Great video!