JaneV2.0
10-22-12, 7:28pm
Ketogenic diets have been used successfully to control seizures in children (and lately in adults) and Warburg and others have associated glucose with tumor growth. This tiny trial found encouraging results in patients with advanced cancer. The deeper patients were in ketosis, the more likely their tumors were to stabilize or regress.
http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007%2812%2900186-4/fulltext
Interestingly, there have been studies released lately showing a relationship between carbohydrate intake rates and Alzheimer's disease, with high insulin levels being implicated:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/EJIM_PUBLISHED.pdf
“In this paper, we highlight how an excess of dietary carbohydrates, particularly fructose, alongside a relative deficiency in dietary fats and cholesterol, may lead to the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
A first step in the pathophysiology of the disease is represented by advanced glycation end-products in crucial plasma proteins concerned with fat, cholesterol, and oxygen transport.
This leads to cholesterol deficiency in neurons, which significantly impairs their ability to function. Over time, a cascade response leads to impaired glutamate signaling, increased oxidative damage, mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction, increased risk to microbial infection, and, ultimately, apoptosis.
Other neurodegenerative diseases share many properties with Alzheimer’s disease, and may also be due in large part to this same underlying cause.”
It seems that high insulin levels/high blood sugar levels are key in many of the top killers of our time: diabetes, cardiovascular disease (as it relates to metabolic syndrome), cancer, and dementia. These studies are just the tip of the iceberg, IMO.
http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007%2812%2900186-4/fulltext
Interestingly, there have been studies released lately showing a relationship between carbohydrate intake rates and Alzheimer's disease, with high insulin levels being implicated:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/EJIM_PUBLISHED.pdf
“In this paper, we highlight how an excess of dietary carbohydrates, particularly fructose, alongside a relative deficiency in dietary fats and cholesterol, may lead to the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
A first step in the pathophysiology of the disease is represented by advanced glycation end-products in crucial plasma proteins concerned with fat, cholesterol, and oxygen transport.
This leads to cholesterol deficiency in neurons, which significantly impairs their ability to function. Over time, a cascade response leads to impaired glutamate signaling, increased oxidative damage, mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction, increased risk to microbial infection, and, ultimately, apoptosis.
Other neurodegenerative diseases share many properties with Alzheimer’s disease, and may also be due in large part to this same underlying cause.”
It seems that high insulin levels/high blood sugar levels are key in many of the top killers of our time: diabetes, cardiovascular disease (as it relates to metabolic syndrome), cancer, and dementia. These studies are just the tip of the iceberg, IMO.