There are many anecdotal cancer reversals with keto diet, but the most impressing one involves a former world power lifting champion Dr. Fred Hatfield. He is a doctor and has completed graduate studies in kinesiology.
Hatfield has been diagnosed with aggressive metastatic skeletal cancer. Few doctors gave the same prognosis – 3 months left to live. He was desperate and after a long research found the ketogenic diet as a miracle.
Doctor Fred Hatfield had nothing to lose and took up the test. Consuming a fair amount of good meats, a lot of good fats, avoiding sugars and all carbohydrates, trans-fatty acid hydrogenated oils.
Good fats include: eggs, butter, flax seed, avocado, pressed oils and once vilified coconut oil. Hatfield’s cancer started reducing in a few months and his health started improving one year later.
Dr. D’ Agostino received word from a dozen people who used the ketogenic diet to successfully cure cancer. Cancer cells ferment glucose to thrive because they are deprived of oxygen that normal cells use for metabolism. Healthy fats deliver fatty acids which convert to energy bestowing ketones when the cells are deprived of glucose.
Normal cells convert ketones for energy. Cancer cells cannot. Replacing glucose with ketones will starve cancer cells. No side effects, just weight loss.
CNB health reporter Lorrie Johnson, that covered the Hatfield story, finds out that it is fine to modify the ketogenic diet after cancer is reversed. She uses another less strict diet after curing her cancer. Introducing some complex carbs which are not that easily converted to glucose seems okay without cancer.
Oncologist do not warn their patients, although the well-known fact – cancer cells thrive on simple sugars. Instead, they are fed pastries, or ice cream while undergoing chemotherapy.
All alternative cancer therapies have the same foundation that exclude simple carbohydrates and sugar that convert to glucose easily.