There's this guy I know who claims that all cancerous tumors can be essentially destroyed by a one-month water fast.He claims that when he was living in the States, he met a doctor who told him that one of his patient was cured of breast cancer by following the one month water diet, and the doctor encouraged it. (Whether other cancer-fighting therapies were administered at the same time, and whether this story is even true, I do not know).
His theory? Cancer cells consume the most. By starving your body, the cancer cells, which require the most energy, will die first, and when you start eating again, the cancer cells will be dead, and your healthy cells can re-cooperate.
I've never had cancer, but like the majority of people, there have been incidences of cancer amongst my family and friends, and never has a doctor suggested they starve themselves. On the contrary, they would be encouraged to eat and given advice on how to eat (when the treatment made them nauseous, for example, the RICE diet).
Do you think this guy's just bs-ing me? Has anyone even heard of this?
(Also, after googling it, these are a couple of articles I found on the subject).
http://www.4nutrition.com/bcnchapter_exsum.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-562623/Can-starving-help-combat-cancer.html
By water fast, he meant you don't eat, you only drink water. Not even juice! Essentially, taking in NO calories for a month!
XxPurplePyroxX - Ask a real doctor. This sounds really stupid. If cancer was that simple to cure it would be in the papers everywhere and almost no one would die. The reason cancer kills you isn't because it uses energy that you'd need for other reasons, but because you're body rejects the transformed cell that your body is producing. Same reason people die occasionally after heart transplants.
ReplyDeleteWynonna Jackson - One month water fast? You would DIE if you didn't have water for a month. Water is essential for survival, and you can't function properly without it. You would be so dehydrated after a week that you would die. This guy you are speaking of is very uneducated and his theory is ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteCanadian - I don't believe it, it's just stupid fucking spam.
ReplyDeleteMeg - No
ReplyDeleteNvrgvup - Fasting saves lives., if done correctly. Water only, no juice, no food. Fasting gives the body a chance to use the energy from digesting food, in healing the body.
ReplyDeleteWe all overeat rubbish. Even an animal has more sense and will fast if sick. Humans still eat and even smoke while ill in hospital
Look up the book " Fasting can save your life".
Fasting doesn't need to be for a month to benefit, just a few days , and thereafter one day a fortnight will benefit. And yes , I do believe your friend, because fasting plus faith in it , wins any time.