Why Ketosis Works

Think about it this way. What if there were a single intervention that could:

  • Lower blood vessel growth to tumors (angiogenesis)

  • Restore normal death of cancer cells (apoptosis)

  • Destabilize cancer DNA

  • Protect the DNA of healthy cells

  • Reduce tumor size over time

  • Trigger autophagy and cellular cleanup

  • Lower insulin and IGF-1 (drivers of over 70% of cancers)

  • Enhance chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy

  • Reduce treatment side effects

  • Improve immune function

  • Improve oxygenation

Most people say, “Yes, where do I sign?”  These effects occur simultaneously simply by achieving a state of ketosis through personalized carbohydrate restriction, metabolic therapies, and nutritional support.

What Ketosis Actually Does in the Body

Ketones are non-glycating fuels. They do not cause inflammation, oxidation, or tissue damage like glucose and fructose.

  • Healthy cells thrive on ketones

  • Cancer cells struggle to use them efficiently

Ketosis improves immune surveillance and cancer recognition and may enhance the effectiveness of immune checkpoint therapies.

Ketosis Synergizes With Cancer Therapies

When cancer cells are metabolically stressed, they become more vulnerable to treatment, including:

  • Chemotherapy 

  • Radiation

  • Hyperbaric oxygen

  • IV Vitamin C

  • Mistletoe therapy

  • Ozone therapies

  • Hyperthermia / Thermofield

  • CBD

  • Immunotherapies

At the same time, ketosis protects healthy cells, often reducing side effects and improving tolerance.

There is a correlation between dietary carbohydrate intake and the development of cancer, with high blood glucose levels and tumor growth. Amazingly, a low-carb ketogenic diet impacts ALL of the hallmarks of cancer.

Characteristics of cancer include resistance to normal cell death, continued division of damaged cells, promotion of angiogenesis, and the creation of new blood vessels as a support system to provide nutrients for tumors. Cancer growth is also marked by invasion and metastasis, or the spreading of cells to other parts of the body, which originate from the initial tumor. These characteristics are some of the hallmarks of cancer.

The Warburg Effect describes the abnormal metabolic behavior of cancer cells. Tumors lack metabolic versatility, depending largely on glucose for energy. Dietary carbohydrates and simple sugars turn into glucose, which feeds the tumor and promotes metastasis. Blood glucose is directly correlated to tumor growth.

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How Does the Ketogenic Diet Enable the Body To Fight Cancer?

The ketogenic diet shuts down the fuel supply of cancer cells. They are poorly equipped to convert ketones into energy. A ketogenic diet has the potential of restoring mitochondrial activity leading to either cancer cell death or changing them into normal, healthy cells.

Proliferation of cancer cells requires glucose production. Cancer cells become weakened when they experience energy stress, which occurs when there is an interruption in the availability of their primary source of energy – glucose. Cancer cells use glucose to protect themselves against oxidative stress. Therapies that produce oxidative stress in cancer cells include chemotherapy, radiation, vitamin C IV, artesunate IV, ozone therapy, and Vitamin C/K3 therapy. Combining these therapies with a ketogenic diet will increase the effectiveness of these therapies and reduce the cancers ability to defend itself.

Ketones are an optimal source of energy for healthy cells, while the opposite is true for cancer cells. Ketones reduce blood glucose levels and are metabolized in the mitochondria. When glucose is lowered, insulin levels drop. Glucose & insulin are strong drivers for cancer.

Ketones are converted to energy in the mitochondria. Because of their damaged mitochondria, cancer cells cannot effectively use ketones as an energy source and becomes metabolically vulnerable. In this state either the mitochondria is activated and with a functioning mitochondria, the cell has a chance to repair genetic mutations, or if the cell is too damaged, cell death is initiated. The cell death switch is controlled by the mitochondria.

The presence of ketones in the body creates an environment where survival rates of cancer cells are lowered and cell division is inhibited.

Ketones are also regulators of gene expression (the process by which instructions in our DNA are converted into a functional product), which promotes an anti-cancer environment.

A state of ketosis in the body is an effective way to reactivate an immune response against cancer.  The ketosis state helps to serve as an “immune adjuvant” or secondary support, boosting tumor-reactive immune responses within the micro-environment, thereby alleviating the immune-suppressive response which can lead to cancer development and growth.