Changes in your diet not only affect you physically, physiologically, inside, but also

mentally, how will you think psychologically, how will you feel?

But you'll never know just how good you can feel until you put it to the test and try

eating healthier.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast, I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we follow a fascinating case study on the reversal of stage 3 cancer with

fasting.

After a cancer diagnosis, the focus is understandably I'm wandering the spread and resurgence

of the cancer, but patients often also want to know what additional steps they themselves

can take to support their body's fight.

Previously I addressed what to eat after a cancer diagnosis, what about eating nothing

at all?

Fasting is purported to ameliorate cancers, but to support such claims they cite studies

like this on castrated mice.

That's because there are no human studies of efficacy, though there are a few case

reports.

For example, water only fasting and exclusively plant foods diet in the management of

follicular lymphoma.

Traditional chemotherapy has been the mainstay of treatment for follicular lymphoma, but

in the majority of patients the cancer surges back within a few years and the chemo associate

with immediate and enduring toxicities, including secondary malignancies, meaning new cancers

caused by the chemo drugs themselves, raising the question of whether chemotherapy should

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