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Old Tue, Nov-30-10, 12:53
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Originally Posted by Zei
I've wondered about this. I do eat very low carb, but my body still has normal to above normal blood sugar levels. It must be manufacturing its own glucose from the other things I eat because I'm not eating the carbs. So while there are plenty of other benefits of low-carb eating and avoiding sugar, it seems like if starving yourself to avoid carbs wouldn't stop the tumor from finding glucose in your body, neither would low-carbing because your body still makes some glucose, if cancer cells are that much better at extracting it from your body than healthy non-ketone-using cells that need it. Anyone have ideas about this?


Well, don't many cancer patients die of starvation as the cancer deprives the body of nutrition? So staying well nourished with ketones might at least help stay strong?
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