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Dr. Philipp Mergenthaler and Dr. Andreas Meisel showed that depriving a cell of glucose,
while giving it plenty of oxygen at the same time, blocks glycolysis. It thereby forces the
cell to revive its mitochondria and use the Krebs cycle for energy, or just die.

In 2008 a group led by Dr. Valter Longo, a biologist at the University of Southern
California (USC), published a paper suggesting that a short, sharp course of fasting—not
eating at all for a few days as opposed to months of eating much less than normal—could
make ordinary, non-cancerous cells more resistant to the side-effects of chemotherapy, at
least in yeast and mice. He also asserts that fasting will strengthen the immune system
and help unleash its power on cancer cells.

Dr. Longo asserts that fasting can actually make cancerous cells more susceptible to
chemotherapy than they otherwise might be. Cancerous mice treated with a combination
of chemotherapy and fasting had better survival chances and smaller tumors, for several
different types of cancer, than those treated with either fasting or chemotherapy alone. In
some cases, the combination treatment eradicated even metastasized cancers completely.

An increasing number of medical scientists know that the most logical, effective, safe,
necessary and inexpensive way to treat cancer is to cut off the supply of food to tumors
and cancer cells, starving them with a lack of glucose. The therapeutic strategy for
selective starvation of tumors by dietary modification is one of the principle forms of
therapy necessary for cancer patients to win their war on cancer.

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah were one of the first to discover that
sugar “feeds” tumors. The research published in the journal Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences said, “It’s been known since 1923 that tumor cells use a lot more
glucose than normal cells. Our research helps show how this process takes place, and how
it might be stopped to control tumor growth,” says Don Ayer, Ph.D., a professor in the
Department of Oncological Sciences at the University of Utah.

Dr. Thomas Graeber, a professor of molecular and medical pharmacology, has
investigated how the metabolism of glucose affects the biochemical signals present in
cancer cells. In research published June 26, 2012 in the journal Molecular Systems
Biology, Graeber and his colleagues demonstrate that glucose starvation—that is,
depriving cancer cells of glucose—activates a metabolic and signaling amplification
loop that leads to cancer cell death as a result of the toxic accumulation of reactive
oxygen species (ROS). xlvii

Depriving your body of calories effectively treats cancer and nothing will do that better
than a water fast. Normal cells respond to fasting by going into survival mode. They slow
down, conserve resources and go into healing and regeneration mode.

Cancer cells on the other hand plow full steam ahead which leaves them vulnerable. When
denied food, they do not have the ability to slow down their metabolism until food
becomes available again. They need a constant flood of glucose – i.e. blood sugar, which

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