2023-06-01 05:00:00
With diets against cancer, the story of the wolf is happening, that from so many false warnings people become immunized and then ignore when the real one arrives. But yes, there are three diets that prevent a third of tumors, and that even help patients already diagnosed. The question seems important, take my advice…
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With diets against cancer, the story of the wolf is happening, that from so many false warnings people become immunized and then ignore when the real one arrives. But yes, there are three diets that prevent a third of tumors, and that even help patients already diagnosed. The question seems important, take my advice.
The National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) is very proactive in promoting antitumor diets. Last year he organized an international conference on the subject, and one of his teams, led by Nabil Djouder, has just published a review in Trends in Molecular Medicine. The central idea is preventive medicine, which is an essential and unstoppable trend in the developed world, and it should be so in the rest of the planet. Heart attack, cancer and neurodegeneration are the major causes of death and loss of quality of life in our societies, and the techniques for their treatment are imperfect and expensive. If health systems are to be sustainable, and by God we need them to be, there is no choice but to promote preventive medicine, and diet is a fundamental part of it.
In the case of cancer, research has focused on three very specific diets: caloric restriction (eating less than what a current nutritionist would recommend), intermittent fasting (fasting for 12 or 16 hours a day) and the ketogenic diet. (low in carbohydrates, moderate in protein and high in fat). All three have shown beneficial effects in laboratory animals, in human cells, and in fledgling clinical trials examining the issue.
Djouder explains to this newspaper that both cancer prevention and treatment can improve with any of these three diets. “That’s clear,” he says, “what’s not clear is why.” His favorite hypothesis is that all three diets are low or very low in sugars (also called carbohydrates or carbohydrates). None of this is intended to replace cancer therapies, but it does complement them. The combination of diet with immunotherapy, for example, shows promise. As a connoisseur of human metabolism, Djouder has developed a scientific nose that tells him that sugars occupy the node of the cell’s energy transactions, and he is fighting hard to understand the phenomenon from its very foundations.
But it is not always necessary to delve deeply into the nature of things to begin to use its advantages and avoid its disastrous consequences. Scientists are increasingly clear that excess intake, and in particular that of sugars, are behind the great causes of suffering and death in the West. Medicine and pharmacological research cannot win a race against their own success, that is, against the increase in life expectancy and the consequent diseases of old age.
Fatphobia? I neither have it nor do I suffer from it, despite the fact that I am a fat man of remarkable proportions. Discriminating against a fat person is vile, but everyone, including present or future fat people, has the right to know what our health options are. Later, there each one with their private religions.
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