Why Fasting And The Ketogenic Diet Can Help With Cancer Treatment and Prevention

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Dr. Mark Hyman

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🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Why Fasting And The Ketogenic Diet Can Help With Cancer Treatment and Prevention | This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker

The right diet is so imperative in preventing cancer or during the healing process. This is in large part because of the role insulin plays in cancer; insulin acts as a growth factor in the body, which is one of the reasons too much insulin leads to obesity. It’s also why insulin will support the growth of cancer cells. Recent research is now revealing some fascinating results of using fasting and/or the keto diet to dramatically decrease insulin.

In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman speaks to Dr. Jason Fung about how fasting has been found as a useful adjunct to chemotherapy, as it helps to put cells into a quiet repair mode which lessens the really uncomfortable symptoms of chemo most people experience. He also speaks with Dr. Patrick Hanaway about his experience in managing stage IV cancer, using the ketogenic diet, fasting, radiation, chemotherapy, and his spiritual practices for maximum benefit.

Dr. Jason Fung is a physician, author, and researcher. His groundbreaking science-based books about diabetes and obesity, The Diabetes Code, The Obesity Code, and The Complete Guide to Fasting have sold over one million copies and challenged the conventional wisdom that diabetics should be treated with insulin. Dr. Fung is also the co-founder of The Fasting Method, a program to help people lose weight and reverse type 2 diabetes naturally with fasting. His latest book, The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery, was just released.

Dr. Patrick Hanaway is a board-certified family physician trained at Washington University. After 10 years as Chief Medical Officer at Genova Diagnostics, Dr. Hanaway became the Chief Medical Education Officer for the Institute for Functional Medicine. In 2014, Dr. Hanaway was the founding Medical Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. His research focus is on nutrition, the microbiome, and evaluating value in Functional Medicine models of care. Currently, his teaching focus is on cancer, COVID, and uncertainty.

Dr. Hanaway was initiated in 2009 as a Mara’akame (Indigenous healer) by the Huichol people of the Sierra Madres in Mexico. He holds community fires, leads ceremonies, and offers traditional healing sessions. This part of his practice provides some much-welcome spiritual and emotional insight into addressing our imbalances as a nation.

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker. If you’re curious about getting your own health program dialed-in to your unique needs, check out InsideTracker. Right now they’re offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners 25% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.

Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dr. Jason Fung, “Is Cancer Caused By Sugar?” here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrJasonFung

Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dr. Patrick Hanaway, “The Functional Medicine Approach To Treating COVID-19 And Post-COVID Syndrome” here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/PatrickHanaway

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, we have a couple studies on fast and
0:04.5	aching therapy where what you do is you fast sort of just before and during and just after
0:10.8	your chemotherapy. And what they've noticed is that those people tend to get a lot less side
0:16.4	effects from treatment. Hey everyone it's Dr. Mark. Something I get more and more excited about
0:21.9	every year is personalized medicine. When I began practicing functional medicine over 20 years ago
0:27.0	as clear to me we have to look at how unique each body is. Now with the technology advancing
0:32.4	in amazing ways we can truly take that concept to the next level. One of the tools I recently
0:37.3	discovered that can help us all do that from home is Inside Tracker. Founded in 2009 by Top
0:42.7	Scientists and Aging Genetics and Biometric Data from MIT Tufts and Harvard, Inside Tracker is
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0:53.4	longer more productive life. They're cutting edge technology, analyze your blood DNA and lifestyle
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1:05.0	every day. Inside Tracker tells you what to do and why so your health goals are clear and actionable
1:10.2	and most importantly based on exactly what your body needs. My team took Inside Tracker for a spin
1:16.4	and really loved it. They discovered some important things about their health that led them to stop
1:21.1	procrastinating when it came to certain parts of their health like for example finally taking
1:25.2	vitamin D supplements after seeing they were deficient or eating more iron rich foods due to
1:29.6	low ferret and in hemoglobin and making an effort to embrace stress reduction techniques after seeing
1:35.2	high cortisol levels. Health is not black and white and your wellness plan shouldn't be either.
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