The Low Carb Cancer Diet's Unfortunate
Cancer Promoting Effects
...and a Possible Solution
Instinctively, a low-carb or no-carb anti-cancer diet makes sense. Otto Warburg won two Nobel Prizes by showing that cancer cells primarily use glucose to produce energy. This process called anaerobic glycolysis. Cancer cells have many times more insulin receptors on their surface than normal cells. This enables them to consume much more of their favorite food, glucose, coming from carbohydrates.
Because of this, when fighting cancer, being on a low carbohydrate diet makes a lot of sense. This is especially appealing in view of the popularity of keto and low carb diets. If carbs are bad for you, why eat them and feed cancer cells? It doesn't make sense.
Thus many people with cancer eat some sort of a reduced carbohydrate or even a no carbohydrate diet
Unfortunately, a low or no carb “cancer diet” is not as useful as it seems...
When you stop eating carbs, two things happen.
1. Your liver starts converting amino acids into glucose. This is done because all cells, and especially your brain cells, need glucose to function optimally. When your diet is not supplying enough carbs, your brain signals the body to produce the glucose it needs.
Because of this glucose production by the liver, cancer cells still have glucose to eat - even when you eat no carbs at all. Approximately half the amount as they would have if you were eating a normal diet.
2. Cancer cells start burning more glutamine and fat to produce energy. These may not be the preferred energy source for cancer cells. Glucose is. But cancer cells do metabolize them. And of course they are going to increase their consumption of these nutrients if not as much glucose is available.
So there you are, doing the best you can to fight cancer. Restricting yourself to a very low carb or no carb diet. Thinking this is worth it because you are starving the cancer. But unfortunately, you are not starving the cancer. Cancer cells eat the glucose your body makes. Plus, they consume more glutamine and fat to supplement the lack of glucose.
There would be a decrease in energy production in cancer cells on a low or no carb diet. But they are definitely not starving.
Four Cancer Promoting Effects of a Low Carb Diet
Not only does the low or no carb diet not starve cancer, but it reduces your body’s ability to fight cancer. It can also make your body more likely to develop cancer.
This is not what you want…
A low carb cancer diet causes elevated levels of cortisol. (This also happens when fasting.) Here's why.
Blood glucose levels become low when glucose is not supplied by carbs in the diet. Your brain notices this and tells the adrenal glands to release cortisol. This cortisol signals the liver to release glucose stored in it.
When you are not eating carbs, the brain must activate this process a lot. As a result, cortisol levels become chronically elevated.
This has four negative consequences…
1. Cortisol turns down the immune system response.
Releasing cortisol is part of the stress response. Danger is approaching and you have to escape. The stress response releases cortisol. This tells the liver to release glucose so that there is more energy to run faster or fight harder. To focus all energy on escaping this danger, the immune system is also down-regulated. It is not needed right now. All energy must go towards survival.
Cortisol always down-regulates the immune system.
Immuno-suppressants like prednisone are a form of cortisol. (It is 4 to 5 times stronger than the cortisol your body makes.)
The stress response and the release of cortisol is useful when danger is approaching. But it’s definitely not what you want when fighting cancer. (I first understood this after reading a NIH article. It pointed out that low carb diets reduce immune system response. And thus, do not help fight cancer.)
2. Chronically elevated cortisol levels increase inflammation.
Inflammation has many long term negative effects in your body. Including setting the stage for cancer…
Edward Winstead, in a 2022 article for the National Cancer Institute, writes about how cancer is an inflammatory disease.
“Today, inflammation is considered a hallmark of cancer. Researchers are exploring the potential role of inflammation in many aspects of cancer, including the spread of the disease within the body and the resistance of tumors to treatment.
"In the coming years, researchers hope to learn more about whether patients with cancer might benefit from treatments that target inflammation around tumors. Some early studies have yielded promising results.
"‘The numerous and diverse links between cancer and inflammation all present opportunities to develop therapies,’ said Michael Karin, Ph.D., of the University of California, San Diego, who studies mechanisms of inflammation…
"Stephen Hewitt, M.D., Ph.D., of the Experimental Pathology Laboratory in NCI’s Center for Cancer Research (says) ‘But on the other hand, inflammation that is not effectively controlled can potentially contribute to the development and growth of cancers.’”
Not eating carbs causes elevated cortisol levels. Elevated cortisol levels cause chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation promotes the development and growth of cancer.
Making your cancer more likely to grow and spread was not what you were hoping for when you went on that low carb cancer diet. But it is what happens.
3. Wasting is accelerated.
Another function of cortisol is to replenish the glucose stored in the liver. Cortisol breaks down muscles, bones and brain to get amino acids. The liver makes glucose from these amino acids.
Cortisol also causes your body to use up stored fat in a process called lipolysis. Unfortunately, this is not the harmful visceral fat found around internal organs. This fat that increases inflammation in your body. Instead, it uses up your peripheral and subcutaneous fat that is actually good for you.
Many people with cancer who go on a low carb diet tend not to get enough calories. This causes weight loss on its own. To make matters worse...
Cancer cells also consume more glutamine and fat because they do not have as much glucose to eat. This contributes to muscle and fat loss.
It is no wonder that many people eventually end up emaciated and weak when on the low carb cancer diet. All these processes contribute to wasting. And of course, if you are on chemo and lose your appetite, it is even worse.
4. The low carb diet is inefficient.
Cancer is a metabolic disease. Cancer cells cannot produce energy efficiently. They have damaged cellular metabolism. Healthy cells have good cellular metabolism. Damage to healthy cells is either repaired, or if the cell is too damaged, it tells itself to die. This is good.
Cells turn cancerous when they cannot produce enough energy. This can happen for a variety of reasons. A main factor is consumption of poor quality - heated or cooked - poly and mono unsaturated oils. These damaged oils clog up cells and reduce their ability to uptake oxygen and nutrients.
(It is likely that the carbs in chips, cookies and cakes are not the problem. But rather it is the heated vegetable oils in them. They have been damaged during processing, or damaged by baking. This is what makes these foods especially not healthy.)
Cells that eventually produce far too little energy, can turn into cancer cells. Otto Warburg pointed this out. Other cancer researchers have verified this.
The most efficient source of energy for cells is glucose. When cells oxidize glucose, 36 to 38 ATP's of energy are produced by every molecule of glucose. Nothing else comes close. Burning glucose also creates very low ROS free radicals. So there is less damage to cells. Research has shown that glucose oxidation is by far the best way for cells to produce energy. Metabolizing fat ketones is not as efficient at producing energy. Fermenting glucose even less so.
A low carb diet reduces cellular energy production. It is not as able to prevent cells from turning cancerous. Nor is it likely to give the body as much energy to fight the cancer. This issue is not as big a problem as is the turning down of the immune system. Or as the increase in inflammation caused by chronically elevated cortisol. But still, it is a significant problem.
What to do when caught between a rock and a hard place? There is an alternative that works.
What to do? Feed Cancer? Starve Cancer? The Best Alternative…
On the one hand, eating carbohydrates does feed cancer cells. Not eating carbs reduces the amount of cancer’s favorite food. But they still have food to eat - blood sugar released by the liver, plus glutamine and fats. So it is unknown how significant a benefit there is from being on a very low carb or no carb diet. One thing is clear…
The low carb diet does not starve cancer near as much as the proponents of this diet believe it does.
On the other hand, not eating carbs, and also fasting, reduces your immune system’s ability to fight cancer. It increases inflammation that drives the development of cancer. It accelerates muscle and fat wasting and reduces cellular energy production. Not good when it comes to fighting cancer.
It is very unlikely that a low or no carb diet to fight cancer is worthwhile - given all the negative effects.
This is contrary to just about everything you hear. So we also check it with our energetic testing to see what that shows.
For years we have used energetic testing to rate the cancer fighting ability of products. In our experience, the highest rated products work the best. They get the best feedback. So we have found this testing useful and continue to use it.
We tested the effectiveness of the cancer diet. First we tested the low carb or no carb cancer diet's ability to reduce energy production in cancer cells. This came in a 240 on a log scale to 1000. 240 is in the low end of the good range. So being on a low carb cancer diet does interfere with the cancer cells. But not a lot.
There are plenty of simple anti-cancer therapies that test higher. Taking 3 teaspoons of baking soda a day tests 330. Eating 10 apricot pits a day tests 300. Doing 15 minutes of deep breathing a day tests 310.
Next we tested the rating of the cancer diet if you take into consideration its overall effects. Taking into consideration everything mentioned earlier in this article.
Being on a low or no carb anti-cancer diet tested a 50 when taking these side effects into account. On the scale we use, 100 is the bottom of the okay range, not useful, but not harmful. Anything less than 100 has negative consequences. 50 is quite negative.
This is not good. Negative consequences outweigh any good that may occur. These consequences include turning down the immune system, increasing inflammation, low energy and wasting. The cancer diet causes more harm than benefits.
It seems to be much better to NOT be on the low or no carb cancer diet when fighting cancer. And to eat at least a normal amount of carbs.
Of course, it is understandable if this makes you nervous. What with most natural practitioners recommending not eating carbs... But when you look into this issue, the answer seems clear.
There is a way, however, to cause cancer cells to “poison” themselves when they eat carbs. Using this solution enables you to have the best of both worlds. You eat carbs to improve your immune system response, reduce inflammation and more. Yet at the same time eating carbs is making your cancer cells sicker.
How To Make Cancer Cells Feel Sick When You Eat Carbs…
The solution is to use the elixir BLA. It has energetic frequency instructions that are picked up by cancer cells when you take it. Since 2011 it has been helping cancer cells to become more toxic and ill from excess acidity.
Here's how it works...
BLA interferes with the removal of lactic acid from cancer cells. These cells interpret and respond to BLA's frequencies. Its instructions direct cancer cells to retain lactic acid. This acid is generated as a waste by-product when cancer cells ferment glucose.
Glucose fermentation primarily fuels cancer cell energy production. The more aggressive a cancer cell is, the higher its glucose fermentation. The glucose they metabolize comes from both dietary carbohydrates and from blood sugar. Due to their heavy reliance on glucose fermentation, cancer cells generate a lot of lactic acid.
For self-preservation, cancer cells expel lactic acid to prevent excessive acidity. BLA instructions tells cancer cells not to release lactic acid. Based on feedback from thousands of users, cancer cells follow the instructions in BLA. The consequent inability to expel lactic acid causes a build-up of acidity inside cancer cells.
The more carbohydrates you eat, the greater the amount of lactic acid that is produced. And the more buildup there will be in cancer cells. High carbohydrate intake thus causes excessive levels of lactic acid inside cancer cells. This makes them unhealthy and weak. Or worse.
BLA give you the best of both worlds. You can eat plenty of carbs when on BLA. This gives cells more energy, helps the immune system work better, reduces inflammation. And you can stop starving yourself.
There are other benefits to inhibiting the release of lactic acid from cancer cells. The expelled lactic acid helps protect cancer cells from the immune system. Plus, it makes the surrounding environment more acidic. This places stress on nearby healthy cells, increasing their likelihood of becoming cancerous. By hindering the release of lactic acid, BLA may help the immune system to better attack cancer. And may help prevent cancer from spreading to nearby healthy cells.
BLA works even if your diet is a low or no carb diet. This is because your body produces its own blood sugar when you don't get enough carbs in your food. So cancer cells will always have some glucose to eat. But not as much. So there will be a smaller buildup of lactic acid in them. Still useful, but not as much.
To gauge how useful something might be when you have cancer, we do energetic testing. Results were most interesting when we tested BLA and diet. When taking BLA while adhering to a low-carb diet, it scored 660. This value that falls within the high end of the 'very good' to use range. However, the impact of BLA is much more when eating plenty of carbohydrates and sugars...
BLA scored a much stronger 870 when you are eating a 40% carbohydrate diet. This is at the lower end of the 'great to use' range in our testing scale.
When eating a 60% carbohydrate diet, BLA scored 960. This is in the 'super great' range for dealing with cancer. When using BLA, the more carbs you eat, the faster lactic acid builds up in cancer cells. And the faster they be become sick and weaken.
The buildup of lactic acid in cancer cells acts like a magnet. The increased acidity attracts alkaline supplements to cancer cells. This helps target these cells. This enhances the effectiveness of these supplements. This include Alka Super C, Silver GlucoPlus, Narigrav, and Zeolite Enhanced with DHQ. Helping to make them even more powerful.
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It being healthy to eat carbohydrates, doesn't mean it is fine to just eat anything you want.
Here are some dietary tips that may improve your health...
Diet pointers to better fight cancer and for better health…
Carbohydrates…
For your best health, in general 60% of the diet being carbs calories tests as being optimal. This percentage will make sure that your cells are not switched over to metabolizing fat. A diet supplying 60% carbs is especially valuable when you are also taking the elixir BLA. When using BLA, the more carbs you eat, the more lactic acid will build up in cancer cells. And the faster they become too acidic and sick.
Using BLA will give you assurance that you are not promoting the growth of cancer when on a high carb diet.
Simple carbs can be healthier than complex carbs even though simple carbs have a higher glycemic index. This happens when there is an overgrowth of bad bacteria in your guts. When this is the case, the longer food stays in the intestines, the more the bad bacteria eat the food. And the more toxins they produce. If you do not have bacterial overgrowth, all carbs work... If you do have bacterial overgrowth, legumes and whole grains take longer to digest. So may not be the best for you to eat.
There is some recent research showing that starches such as root vegetables are the best carbs to eat because they do a better job of improving cellular metabolism.
Ripe fruits, because they are high in antioxidants, are excellent carbs. But even raw honey or organic cane sugar can be healthy. Sugar efficiently feeds your cells with the least amount of oxidative stress. But beware of high fructose corn syrup. It is not healthy at all. White rice and potatoes without skins are also high quality simple carbs.
Brown rice can be irritating to the intestinal wall. White rice is soothing. If your intestinal wall is inflamed causing digestive issues, white rice is medicinal. It helps to sooth the intestinal wall and may absorb toxins too. In the same way, refined pastas will not irritate the intestinal wall like whole grain pasta or breads do. Sprouted pasta or bread is safe and excellent to eat. (Raw veggies and salads can also be irritating.)
Fats…
Keep fat consumption closer to 20% of the diet. If you are overweight, 15% is better.
Cook or bake with saturated fats as they are least damaged by heat. Coconut oil, palm kernel oil, lard, tallow, butter and ghee are among the best to use.
Olive oil and avocado oil have low levels of the polyunsaturated fats which are most damaged by heat. But these two monounsaturated oils are are still damaged by heat. It is healthiest to use cold pressed versions - and do not cook with them. Use them unheated on foods.
Polyunsaturated fatty acids - all seed and vegetable oils - are the most damaged by heat. Use cold pressed versions only, and DO NOT cook or bake with them. Just because an oil has a high smoke temperature does not make it safe.
Avoid processed foods containing vegetable oils that are not cold or expeller pressed. This includes most sauces and condiments. It is specially important to avoid baked, fried and all cooked foods that have these seed and vegetable oils in them.(The ill health effects of eating french fries is not the potatoes/carbs, but the fact that these are almost all fried in vegetable oils. These damaged heated oils clog up your cells, interfere with cellular metabolism, and eventually contribute to the development of metabolic diseases like cancer.
The carbs in cookies, sauces, cakes, aside from unhealthy high fructose corn syrup, are not the problem. What damages health the most in these baked or fried foods is the vegetable or seed oils in them. These are damaged by heat and clog up your cells and cardiovascular system. You can still have some chips. But choose a chip fried or baked in coconut oil or palm oil. Not a chip fried in safflower, sunflower, canola, avocado, olive oil or some other unsaturated oil.
Fish oil in high doses can be very anti-inflammatory. Which is good. But when not protected from free radical damage, research shows that it can contribute to tumor growth.
In high doses it must be ultra refined to avoid getting too many PCB’s and other toxins. And it must have powerful antioxidants added to prevent it from going rancid in the body. We suggest Omega3Gold. It is an ultra refined fish oil with strong antioxidant protection. It is best used with the Fatty Acid Transport Elixir. It increases the number of fatty acid transport proteins so more fatty acids get into cells, where you want them.
Proteins…
Many anti-cancer diets recommend eating little or no animal protein. The well-known "China Study" looked at diet and the amount of cancer in different regions of China. The regions with higher consumption of animal protein had more cancer.
Our energetic testing says animal protein is not necessarily the cause of this increase. That in fact, small amounts of animal protein are healthy when you have cancer. Here’s why this may be true.
The China Study may not have been looking at the whole picture. The regions eating more animal protein were wealthier. So they would likely eat more fat in general as fat is tasty (and expensive). Fat that would come from animal protein and other sources. Poorer regions would be more likely to eat more of the carbs such as white rice or wheat or millet.
It may be that animal protein per se was not the cause of cancer developing. But rather it was a higher fat diet that threw the cells of these people into less efficient fat metabolism. While cells of people in poor, higher carbohydrate eating regions, were in the more efficient glucose metabolism. Thus the wealthier regions developed more metabolic diseases such as diabetes or cancer. Cancer is fundamentally a metabolic disease where cells are not producing enough energy to function.
Even if someone has cancer, eating high quality animal protein tests good to do. We test that up to 20% of the diet could be from animal protein. Grass fed is best, followed by organic. Wild caught fish are also great. Especially small fish like sardines and herring. Salmon is good too. Make sure it is wild caught!
With dairy, make sure it is rbGH-free as this hormone promotes cancer growth. Organic is better, Grass fed is better still. Grass fed and raw is the best. Grass fed and raw hard cheeses can be found in many grocery stores. Organic Valley has a one or two versions.
Remember to count the fat in animal protein towards your total fat consumption. Do not eat so much fat that you turn on the fat metabolizing switch in your cells.
We hope this information is of use to you. It is very much contrary to most of what you hear about diet and cancer.
If you are reluctant to switch to a normal or high carbohydrate diet, it is understandable. So many professionals say the opposite. But there are clear disadvantages to a low carbohydrate diet. Consequences that reduce your immune system’s ability to fight cancer. And the increase in inflammation, when eating a low carbohydrate diet, promotes the growth of cancer.
Using the BLA elixir may prevent cancer from thriving when you are eating carbohydrates. The more carbs that you eat, the more glucose cancer cells eat. And the more lactic acid is produced by these cells as a byproduct of metabolizing glucose.
They can’t get rid of the lactic acid as they would normally do, thanks to the instructions BLA gives them. So lactic acid builds up in cancer cells - making them sick and ill.
BLA has been used for over a decade. It may help make cancer cells more acidic. This increases the ability of other alkaline supplements to be attracted to cancer cells. These include Narigrav with MetOH, Alka Super C, Silver GlucoPlus and Zeolite Enhanced with DHQ.
BLA will work even if you eat a low carbohydrate diet. This is because your liver produces and releases glucose when you don't get carbs from your diet. And cancer cells eat that glucose. So BLA will still work. Not as powerfully, of course. But enough to attract more of these alkaline supplements into cancer cells.
To learn more about BLA, or to purchase, go to GHAnaturals.com.