Fast mimicking diet: some more evidence

[Maxone73]

as you know I am a firm believer, I have used it while on chemo and I still do it, there are any ongoing trials trying to confirm if the great results that fast mimicking diet had in vivo can be obtained on humans as well, hopefully against prostate cancer

here is a "test drive" done on two patients with chronic leukemia

aacrjournals.org/cancerres/...

and here a report, I think the most updated one (fro July), summarizing where we are:

cell.com/cell-metabolism/fu...

[MoonRocket]

Well, I'm doing a FMD. I can't say it's doing anything on the cancer but I think I feel better mostly. I did 3 months of 5 day FMD starting In March. I'm now planning on doing quarterly FMD the second week of September.

Here's a quick overview of my CBC panel from before (April) and after (July):

WBC. 5.1 7.3 thousand/ul

Hglb. 13.6. 14.4.

RBC. 4.33 4.53. gm/dl

Neuts. 2948. 4241 cells/mcL

Lymphs. 1535 2117 cells/mcL

Is this due to regeneration I do not know. I'm going to follow the trends to see.

I do loose roughly 5 lbs each session which I regain a month later. It's mostly water weight.

I'm on a statin now so I can't make any claims about my cholesterol levels. Glucose is always mid 80s when fasting before blood work.

Cheers.

[Mascouche]

Doing what's best gets confusing since it has been discussed that autophagy, which is triggered by fasting, is apparently good at preventing cancer but could be promoting the formation of metastasis if you already have cancer.

I wish there was a clear and definitive outcome on whether it is a positive thing for us to do or whether it is counter-indicated for people with our condition. I used to do extended fasts a few times a year but after reading things like "The crucial question, however, is whether autophagy helps kill tumor cells or instead protects them from the therapies' cell-damaging effects. There's evidence on both sides." or "Cells rely on autophagy to recycle their components, and much evidence favors the idea that this “self-eating” suppresses tumor development. But other data suggest that autophagy fosters tumor development and actually protects cancer cells from treatments" in articles like this one: science.org/doi/10.1126/sci....

The benefits of fasting on overall health has been demonstrated and I've felt several of the benefits myself, but when it comes to its impact on prostate cancer specifically, I don't know anymore.

[Maxone73 in reply to Mascouche]

I do it for my immune system mainly

[MoonRocket in reply to Mascouche]

I think it really is dependant on the individual situation. Wide spread mets or high volume disease, I might not want to poke the bear. Low volume disease, maybe it's possible to generate some new immune cells that will attack the cancer. That's my hope.