There was a just a study out this week showing about how they believe cancer cells stay resistant to chemo. More or less… Cancer cells use Autophagy. When faced with a threat - like Chemo – the go into hibernation mode and basically eat themselves until the danger is gone. So I get confused as to how in prior studies, if the human was fasting, it was claimed that fasting made the cancer more subject to death because the cells didn’t go into the same hibernation state as the regular cells. Anyone have thoughts?
Even though these cancer cells are “hibernating” keep in mind cancers use more energy for growth than regular cells.
It seems during chemo, cancer cells will stop growing to avoid taking in the toxins aimed at killing them, but because a lack of nutrients isn’t the problem, cancer growth could continue once the treatment is over.
Fasting would theoretically starve the tumor, especially if it prefers glucose as fuel.
To me this seems to be in favour of fasting because it demonstrates chemo may mostly inhibit growth for short periods instead of killing cancerous cells