Curious if anyone has tried fasting. This study seems to point to fasting as a way to lower white blood cell count. " Human clinical trials were conducted using patients who were receiving chemotherapy. For long periods of time, patients did not eat, which significantly lowered their white blood cell counts. In mice, fasting cycles “flipped a regenerative switch, changing the signalling pathways for hematopoietic stem cells, which are responsible for the generation of blood and immune systems.”
This means that fasting kills off old and damaged immune cells, and when the body rebounds it uses stem cells to create brand new, completely healthy cells.
“We could not predict that prolonged fasting would have such a remarkable effect in promoting stem cell-based regeneration of the heatopoietic system. . . . When you starve, the system tries to save energy, and one of the things it can do to save energy is to recycle a lot of the immune cells that are not needed, especially those that may be damaged. What we started noticing in both our human work and animal work is that the white blood cell count goes down with prolonged fasting. Then when you re-feed, the blood cells come back. ” – Valter
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I would be taking this with a pinch of salt!
Trials done on people receiving chemo hmmm!
Maybe that had an affect on the white cells do you think?
Fasting kills off white cells hmmm!
Maybe lack of nourishment brings the immune system down ? Of course it would !
I think this is a dangerous piece of crank research where statistics and damned statistics are manipulated to prove what is required.
Correct diet is a must when suffering from cancer or receiving chemo don't believe everything you read!
Valid points. But the trick here was that after refeed, WBC count went back to normal very fast. The hypothesis behind this is the famous stem cells boost.