I'm just a parent, but I know there are natural ways to nourish our children as they go through their bout with cancer. My goal with this blog is to give parents the information that their oncologists may not know or give them so they have the information at their fingertips when they need it. There may not be a natural way to cure cancer (but my view of that is changing!), but I believe there can be a strong "synergy" of anti-cancer foods and supplements that have the ability to make modern medical treatment more effective and at the very least extend lives. My diet philosophy is of whole foods and a whole foods based diet. Whole foods nourish the body as a whole, strengthen the immune system and in turn help it to fight cancer. This is a collection of my personal and ongoing research that started when my daughter was diagnosed with AT/RT brain cancer.
-Weldon Williford, Father

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Dr. Thomas Seyfried/Ketogenic Diet

I feel this is important because it has definitely been used to shrink brain tumors which is important for Layla, AT/RT patients, and any cancer for that matter because they use glucose as fuel. I found an actual interview with the Doctor, who is a professor of Biology at Boston College. He also mentions fasting for 3-4 days as well in an interview, but I personally would still add the oils in as they would not increase glucose in the blood and as shown in other studies are anti-cancerous themselves. Another easy way to reduce blood glucose is with acetic acid such as in Bragg's raw apple cider vinegar. One could take this before or after each meal and very importantly before bedtime which mimics a study I read.  I will be making a post with information about that later.

Research:
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CANCER AND METABOLIC CONTROL ANALYSIS
http://www.crossfit.com/cf-journal/seyfriedInterview.pdf

Info on Dr. Thomas Seyfried
http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/edboard/start.asp?id=72104

Calorie restriction as an anti-invasive therapy for malignant brain cancer in the VM mouse.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20664705?dopt=AbstractPlus&holding=f1000%2Cf1000m%2Cisrctn

Metabolic management of brain cancer.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20804725?dopt=AbstractPlus&holding=f1000%2Cf1000m%2Cisrctn


Targeting energy metabolism in brain cancer with calorically restricted ketogenic diets.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19049606?dopt=AbstractPlus&holding=f1000,f1000m,isrctn

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