Ketogenic diet and cancer
Today, the world is focused on COVID treatment. Meanwhile, doctors appeal that one of the effects of social isolation is the fear of patients with chronic conditions to visit and be treated in hospitals. They appeal that cancer, for example, continues to take the highest casualty toll!
Diet therapy is an integral part of holistic treatment. One way to support the body in cancer is to follow a ketogenic diet.
The ketogenic diet is a style of eating (high-fat, low-carbohydrate) that allows us to enter a state of ketosis. In simple terms, we can say that in this state the body derives energy mainly from ketones and not from glucose. When glucose is in short supply (as a result of dietary restriction or fasting), the body has a need to produce an alternative form of energy for the cells and produces ketones and fatty acids, which by definition provide an energy source for normal cells and not cancer cells.