The next building block I added to my protocol alongside immunotherapy/chemotherapy was fasting.
My initial research took me to Naomi Whittle who has been researching all things wellness for decades, initially for her own auto-immune condition.
Later I discovered the ground breaking work of Dr Valter Longo with the fasting mimicking diet and bought his book: ‘The longevity diet’. In which he goes into depth about how it works for healthy, but also for people in treatment for cancer.
I decided on intermittent fasting as my method of approach as it seems to me, if I learned this, I could likely up my game later on when I was used to it, if need be,.
I began by gradually adding an extra hour a day to my wait for the first meal. Starting with 12 hours.. and gradually each week adding an hour until I reached my average of 16-18 hours per day.
My point was among other things to stabilize my blood insulin sugar levels, and assist the kill ability of, and hopefully lessen the side-effects of chemotherapy at the same time.
Among an incredibly complex long list of benefits that fasting has on the body, besides.. balancing weight, hormones, switching on longevity genes (sirtuins), detox processes are prioritized and if done properly and not to extremes can be ultimately one of the most powerful interventions that can also improve your chances of overall survival from cancer -not just improving overall health,.
The year is now 2022 and although I no longer religiously fast 16+ hours every day, I still do for 5 days a week.
Below are some brilliant scientists who I advise you read before embarking:
Research into fasting and cancer by Valter Longo
Dr. Valter Longo – Fasting Cycles Retard Growth of Tumors (2012)
The MAIN CAUSES Of Cancer & How To PREVENT IT | Dr. Jason Fung
E 14 | The Science of Autophagy – EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Naomi Whittel
Yoshinori Ohsumi: What is autophagy? A dynamic cellular recycling process