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YSK, cancer as a metabolic disease, and tripping over the truth, are excellent books about this, and why we got cancer wrong since watson and crick.

For much more information on this argument about sugar and cancer, see the book Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. http://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-Pr...

Cancer as a metabolic disease by Prof. Seyfried. Available on Amazon. Good starting point.

This. Read "Tripping over the truth" by Travis Christofferson and "cancer as a metabolic disease" by Seyfried.

I'd start with a 3 day water-only fast and then stay low calorie keto for a long time.

I've got the video playing in the background while I work, scanning for references. The first reference is to his own book, "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease", by Thomas Seyfried, John Wiley & Sons, 2012. Presumably he cites many other studies there, I don't know.

I'm only about 7 minutes in, but I do also see a reference to Arismendi-Morillo "Int J Biochem Cell Biol" 41, 2062-68, 2009.

I'll keep updating here.

If you're a layperson try "Tripping over the Truth" by Travis Christofferson. If you have some biology try "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease" by Seyfried.

Look into Thomas Seyfried's work, e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2020.00021... and his book "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease".

Most people feel worst around day 2/3 when transitioning from glycogen to ketosis, after that you feel great.

Why should you fast if you eat healthy and have no extra weight? Two reasons:

1) What most people think is healthy is killing them. Even if someone eats paleo or keto, which are much closer to our ideal diet than anything else, they will still do things like eat a corn-fed steak. Corn-fed meat and fish is low in omega-3 and high in omega-6 and both of these things are very bad for you (omega-3 deficiency is the root dietary cause of depression as just one example). Yet, people think "I'm eating healthy".

2) Metabolically challenged cells are a definition of cancer cells. When doctors think your cancer may be metastatic they give you a PET scan. A PET scan measures the emission of positrons out of some radioactive glucose you're given. The glucose is disproportionately taken up by cancer cells for a couple of reasons, one is that they can't process ketones. Then they show you cool pictures of where the positron-emitting glucose is in your body, which is where the tumors are. If you fast, your glucose is low and those cells don't survive since there is no glucose. See 'Cancer as a Metabolic Disease' by Seyfried.

[warning: The above is not medical orthodoxy, but then medical orthodoxy hasn't made any progress on cancer in ~60 years]

I have that book, but regret buying it. Frankly, it's lightweight for a HN audience.

The original technical book "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease" by Thomas N. Seyfried and published by Wiley seems pretty accessible to me.

I'm not advocating for or against the theory. It seems though a lot of time and money has been invested into the genetic mutation approach, without the expected returns in actual health outcomes, so that there is least a case to answer.