Spontaneous Regression of Cancer with Fasting
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@xzookeeper
4 ай бұрын
I agree with this. I have stage 4b peritoneal carcinomatosis and with this type of cancer you get really sick. I have malignant ascites now and the pain was bad I could barely drink and could not eat for 4 days. When I went to my Dr on the 5th day the ascites had dried up some and a lot of the pain was gone. Ascites does not go away. It just builds up and finally kills you. Mine reversed some by not eating and drinking very little in a 4 day span. I was so dehydrated yet I was feeling so much relief. There is definitely something to fasting that works.
The reason water fasting hasn't been studied properly is because they know the results will hurt chemo/radiation profits.
@umarqulachilov9405
6 ай бұрын
Yeah. Doctors know chemo and radiotherapy doesn't help in some cases but still administer them for money.
@jackmiddleton7944
5 ай бұрын
That's why when you have cancer you're told it's impossible to get rid of and it just happens randomly and there's nothing you can do about it. While there are many things you can do to EASILY beat cancer, the pharma shills wont tell you this.
@Daniko2
4 күн бұрын
Although profits likely have a role, there are some pretty serious challenges in studying water fasting as a cancer treatment. For one, such a study cannot be double-blinded. Also, because untreated cancer is fatal, it would be unethical to fail to treat patients in early stages for the better part of a month. That means clinical trials are usually full of stage IV patients for whom conventional treatment failed. But there comes a time when fasting--which might have been very effective at stage II, or even III--is no longer a useful intervention on its own. Because of these limitations, any data on the effectiveness of fasting as a cancer treatment is likely to be anecdotal, survey, or animal model studies for a good long time.
@mountains1233
4 күн бұрын
@@Daniko2 Have they done extensive, large sample-size, double-blind animal studies? Doubt it.
I did a 28 day water fast to kick start a plant based diet around no process foods and grains, I mostly eat salads and can of beans for my lunch and dinner and some berries and 1-2 handful of nuts for breakfast. I'm down like 80 pounds and I have a lot more energy.
@trevorregay9283
Жыл бұрын
Amazing what simply going back to basics can do for you and avoiding foods that make you sick.....Congrats on your success and be an inspiration to others.....most won't want to accept what you tell them, but a few will adopt your wisdom as you are a living testimony of its effectiveness! God bless!
@KJSvitko
Жыл бұрын
B12 and D3 are common vitamins that people on a plant based diet need.
@albertvarona1877
Жыл бұрын
@Pūkuotas Sapnas Make sure you talk to your doctor and make sure to take electrolytes when doing a water fast.
@YD-uq5fi
Жыл бұрын
Try soaking dry beans and heating them, vs. canned beans. Healthier and much cheaper. Dried beans bought in bulk are so inexpensive as to be almost free.
@imthetube44
Жыл бұрын
@@YD-uq5fi Shame. I bought a can of black beans last week.
I fasted for 13 days - no food, only bottled water (tap water tasted awful). Unnfortunately it made no difference to my PSA level (for prostate cancer). On the other hand, 6 weeks of mostly veg stir fries brought my PSA down from 10.5 to 7. This proved to me that a whole food plant based diet is the best diet to reduce risk of prostate cancer.
@paulcohen6727
Жыл бұрын
You heard what the speaker said about fat in the diet. Frying food in oil will add fat to your food. If you want stir fry, then fry the vegetables in wine, vegetable broth or plant milk instead. And you can add some healthy spices.
@Jonw8222
8 ай бұрын
Fasting is more about trying to slow down or prevent metastasis. It can also help reduce side effects of cancer therapies and increase the effectiveness of them. Sulforaphane in cruciferous vegetables (especially broccoli) can help lower PSA levels.
@LYJManchesterUnited
8 ай бұрын
No treatment other than food?
@boothsgardenstudios
7 ай бұрын
@@LYJManchesterUnited That's correct. Only plant based meals. As I say - mostly stir frys - M&S do the best ones🙂
@eryc817
7 ай бұрын
Get on rick simpson oil
Living with an incurable disease is so hard, but you just have to live life day by day as it goes by (Cancer sucks)...
@DailamiPuang
Жыл бұрын
@Emilio Yepez wow, how can i get in touch with her? this healer, does she cure other sickness
@DailamiPuang
Жыл бұрын
@Emilio Yepez wow, found her website, thank you very much for this.
@jackschitt6235
Жыл бұрын
@Emilio Yepez Does that witch doctor sell penis enlargement supplements too?
@jackschitt6235
Жыл бұрын
@@DailamiPuang Stick with REAL doctors! Shelly Renee White, commonly known as White Witch, is a Haitian Vodou priestess. She began practicing at the age of 17 and emigrated to United States from Haiti during the Duvalier regime. Shelly began offering her services to locals from her home and eventually opened her first successful botanica. With over decades of experience, Shelly is highly regarded for her specialties in love, protection, business, money and cleanses. Occasionally she does court matters., especially child custody and divorces. In 2010, White received national exposure after appearing with Tori Spelling in Tori & Dean on the Oxygen network. Shelly still practices and remains a prominent spiritual leader within the religious practice of Haitian Vodou in America. Love
@Jonas_Santos20
9 ай бұрын
@@DailamiPuanghun, cancer is no joke. Just eat healthy and always consult your doctor
Truly extraordinary.
Love you, Dr. Greger!
Terrific! Can’t wait for your future Cancer book Dr. Gregger! 👍
I have a b-cell NHL lymphoma, called HCL, BRAF V600e positive (those are said to feed on the ketone body acetoacetate, as well as glucose and glutamine - which seems to imply they cannot be starved), I did 110 days of waterfasting in 4 episodes, 40, 20, 20, 30 days, between 2016 and early 2018, i cannot tell if my condition was better or worse right before or after the fasting episodes (no blood tests, i was not aware of my disease), but i did crash with late stage (thrombocytopenic bleeding and neutropenic fever) in late 2018 so it clearly did not heal me for good. My diet was plant based but not always rich in vegetables, i had many days of neglecting my broccoli and eating mainly white bread and dates or just buckwheat and peas, other times it was lentils, rice, broccoli, beets, etc, never a huge diversity of foods. Today i am in remission after a pharma treatment (lost some brain power!) and i intuitively trust in a diet with great plant and herb diversity, at least 60 plants per week, i trust in some particular herbs, i TRY to avoid weight gain (palm oil cookies, etc) and keep caloric deficits moderate (to loose winter gains). I also believe in running.
@tannenradblogspot
Жыл бұрын
I would like to know if the follicular lymphoma in this study was also BRAF V600e positive. 15-30% of follicular lymphoma are, according to chatgpt.
All I did was eat the food in your food app The Daily Dozen and it turned off the cancer and I didn’t need treatment as a result. Thank you so much for everything you do!
@andrathomas9728
Ай бұрын
Wow beautiful 🥰
Intense healing response.
I had been waiting for Dr gregor to cover fasting! very interesting!
Thomas Seyfried - cancer needs glucose and glutamine. Fasting deprives both of these.
@arasjab1412
9 ай бұрын
I didn’t think it deprived glutamine. Only glucose. I must’ve misunderstood
@uffa00001
6 ай бұрын
Fasting deprives the cancer of glucose. Seyfried couples fasting, or ketogenic diet, with a glutamine antagonist so that he can starve the cancer of his other source of energy, glutamine. He is working on the timing and dosing, in order to be able to set up a clinical study. He claims very good results (people alive after many years they had been given a few months of life expectation by traditional medicine) and I certainly don't doubt him, for those cancers that actually show damaged mitochondria, i.e. those cancers which can only feed on sugar through "fermentation". Those cancers, due to the damaged mitochondria, cannot feed on ketonic bodies.
@Jjengering
2 ай бұрын
@@arasjab1412it lowers glutamine during a water fast, it doesn't completely eliminate it but it does drastically reduce glucose and lowers glutamine too.
Great information... and it's like listening to a very informed version of Jeff Goldblum. Love your videos!!
Fascinating :)
Amazing.
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Fantastic. Most people are unwilling to go whole food plant based or water fast which is a shame.
@DynamicBailey
5 ай бұрын
It sounds like you were consuming way too many carbohydrates. Carbs turn into sugar. Sugar feeds cancer cells.
@xzookeeper
4 ай бұрын
It's very hard to do. I can do a 24 hour and that is difficult for me. I did a 4 day with very little water. I was so dehydrated my lips actually shriveled. I did the 4 day not by choice, but because I could not eat and had a very hard time drinking from an illness. Let me tell you. The 4 day dried up some of the malignant ascites and I felt so much relief from the pain.
My oral lichen planus got better after 22 hr water fasting. It got better almost 90%! I hope it will go 100% as I am water fasting today! Will use alovera for better results!
@kellymulderino7156
8 ай бұрын
have you been tested for lyme infections and EBV? i have LP also
@geek5075
8 ай бұрын
@@kellymulderino7156 no
I’m following a woman right now on IG who has a brain tumor that was growing like crazy until she went on a juice fast. 30 days later her scan showed the growth had stopped. Now she’s fasting with some intro of foods to kill the cancer. Seems her naturopath has her on high fat foods which I guess makes sense if we follow the epilepsy model of keto for assistance to treat that. So interesting!
@booyinyang
8 ай бұрын
Thank you, please can you share the name of that woman on IG so we can follow? Thanks
@johnyst5139
7 ай бұрын
@@booyinyangYes please 🙏🙏
Fasting is free-99. They won't promote this.
If you follow the bible and honor the Sabbath you fast from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. That is a weekly 24 hour fast right there.
Wheatgrass and raw foods are a must......."
I recently watched a video talking about how testosterone levels went down during fasting, but then doubled once re-introducing food. They spoke about how exercise can have negative affects on the body until the resting stage comes and that is when you see the benefits. The point is, there’s a possibility that while you are fasting your problems increase until you re-introduce food that you should be eating that the true benefits come. Just a theory I am no doctor or scientist by any means.
@Jonw8222
8 ай бұрын
I have noticed effects like this in the past where it occurred pretty much exactly as you described.
@lisacardwell2508
8 ай бұрын
@@Jonw8222 Sounds like you ended up with good results in in the end. Is that right? If so, amen!
... and yet, a friend of mine who is suffering through her second cancer was told by her doctor to adopt a strict keto diet.
@jackschitt6235
Жыл бұрын
Vegan activists will never acknowledge all the people who have lost weight and gotten rid of type 2 diabetes by eating mostly ANIMAL protein with veggies, no grains or fruit.
@shaunr5450
11 ай бұрын
Good doctor
@elephantintheroom5678
10 ай бұрын
As long as it's a whole foods plant based diet, it will help her. But if it is a meat based diet it will be deadly.
@xzookeeper
4 ай бұрын
Fasting puts you into ketosis and the keto diet mimics fasting.
@lookupyourredemptiondrawsn8799
3 ай бұрын
Carnivore is best for illnes
I'm totally confused. I watched a hundred "I eat only meat videos" and they claim to have the evidence. Then there are videos on plant-based diet and they have the evidence. Is anybody else perplexed like I am. I can't make a freaking decision now!!! I was eating meat the last 10 weeks! Now I'm thinking it's wrong. How do you all decide??? Help!
@xzookeeper
5 ай бұрын
I am having the same issue. So many different studies showing different information. Eat meat, don't eat meat, eat veggies, don't eat veggies, stay in ketosis, ketosis is bad, water fast, don't water fast......................
@CoyBass1432
4 ай бұрын
Every single plant available to eat today did not exist in it's current form 1000 yrs ago so maybe were were not designed to run on them alone.
I always feel like Gregor is hostile to fasting in favor of a plant-based diet. It’s not an either/or situation. Showing some dude hurting himself after fasting for over a month and a half doesn’t diminish the power of fasting
@aaronsands4846
Жыл бұрын
I feel like that's his point, though. Fasting IS powerful in the same way a Corvette is powerful. You have to know your own limits and be very careful or you could take it too far and have a fatal crash. But a strict whole food plant-based diet may be as effective and obviously much easier to stick to long term.
@heyalun
Жыл бұрын
@@aaronsands4846 I don’t think that’s obvious. I’ve been using fasting for over a decade for my health. I’ve been consistent with it since 2017. I’m also plant-based. If I had to choose which one is easier, I’d say the fasting is because of the social pressures of not eating animal products and how many things they’re included in. I’d also say that both are very useful, as the study he mentioned implied. You’re displaying the same prejudice toward fasting that he is. You don’t have to choose one or the other.
@aaronsands4846
Жыл бұрын
@@heyalun In my case, I absolutely have to choose one or the other. I walk 20,000 steps at my manual labor job. I couldn't fast and do this work, I burn through too much energy. It's hard enough to stick close to plant-based.
@ricvanwinkle1665
7 ай бұрын
Since I started intermittent fasting my arthritic pain has gone from a 6-7 down to a 1-2 in a matter of a few weeks. Now I’m 100% plant based and doing SOS diet. Just started this week so I’m just waiting for results.
@heyalun
7 ай бұрын
@@ricvanwinkle1665 best wishes to you with it. Fasting and a WFPB diet in combination are absolutely powerful medicine for the body and mind. The thing that's difficult is that to some degree you have to learn to keep it to yourself. People are so closed-minded and everyone is an expert on diet once you tell them you only eat plants or you don't eat at all sometimes. Even the experts don't know what they're talking about. I once had my doctor tell me that what I do is impossible - and she's the best doctor I've ever had in my life. When I assured her that I am very much alive and she had been encouraging me to fast by saying "keep up the good work," before she knew what I was doing. She told me I must be a genetic freak. That's why I didn't respond to the comment above yours. There's so much irrationality that it's not even worth it trying to explain stuff to most people.
Dr Thomas Seyfried has a good idea why fasting helps
#flowerpower
I believe one person trained for a marathon and ran it with cancer and regressed, clear after 6 months. The Cancer did not remain with an elevated heart and heat from running .
Can we heal mental health issues like bipolar with fasting?
@fritskarsan6519
Жыл бұрын
Yes😊
@sunbeam9222
6 ай бұрын
I heard it works for Alzheimer's so probably
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Good morning is lucuma is canta
And the healing response is even better with a raw whole plant based diet. Grains and pulses can be eaten sprouted.
Listen to Dr Michael Gregan, AND LIVE. It's as simple as that!!! This man needs a nobel prize for his life saving work!
Had to go this way, insulin resistance wins
Now im confused. Thought a ketogenic diet was the best way to fight cancer by being in ketosis. But this relies on fat.
What do I do if I get crazy headaches when I water fast?
@williammactavish3913
Жыл бұрын
Snake Juice (KZread it) .. and of course you'll get headaches, it's a detox symptom. Sack it up.
@heyalun
Жыл бұрын
Maybe cut back on the water. I struggle when I drink too much while fasting. I fast one day a week and I started leaving out the water because it’s so disruptive. I function better. I don’t start drinking until I get to day two of a water fast and I keep it to a minimum. The first time I did a 10 day fast I was miserable from days 3-6. I couldn’t figure it out, until I did it only drinking water half the day and only a little. It becomes a breeze
@off-the-record6613
Жыл бұрын
Add pink salt to your water, you are missing minerals .
@jamesclerkmaxwell8020
Жыл бұрын
You may be getting headaches as some withdrawal symptoms. The body gets rid of toxins when it gets a chance to take a break from digesting most of the time. The cells expels the garbage inside, and that garbage gets into the circulation for a while
@_yourmother_
Жыл бұрын
You need salt men... everyday one tb spoon of salt i have same problem when i was doing fast for 3 days... if you feel pain or some issue on fast... you screw it up, learn new information and start again 👍 people which have problem with fast, they just make mistakes and not because its not for them 😁 its for everyone ⭐
Don‘t you mean remission.
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Interesting stuff.....I don't think there is a down side to simply eating healthier in general. To me, I would have a hard time doing this fasting in hopes of curing cancer, as it appears to only truly work against a particular form of cancer. Good luck finding a Doctor that would agree to stopping your treatment in favor of fasting as well, and then if you did find one, well, lets hope they know what they are doing and you don't end up like the poor soul he points out about in the vid.....anyway, eat your veggies and stay away from fats and salts....get exercise and .....pray a few minutes each day......Body, mind and of course spiritual health!
I'm on day 3 of my dry fast ❤ Feeling great. Second time I'm doing a 7 day dry fast. (First two times I ended the fast after 3-4 days for safety)
@NekyFreestyle
Жыл бұрын
don't do dry fasting, you need the water to help the body detox for example dr Robert Lockhart died as a result of dry fasting (kidney failure) at the age of 75 he was extremely chronically dehydrated, just like most people. Humans are not suitable for dry fasting
@peterthomson7064
Жыл бұрын
drink
@jamesclerkmaxwell8020
Жыл бұрын
Dry fast !? Water fast is documented to work in curing many ailments, but dry-fast... seems like a fast lane to a cliff
@gils1930
Жыл бұрын
What does dry fast mean?
@Julottt
Жыл бұрын
No benefit in dehydrating the body. If you get health benefit from dry fast which is very likely, it's because you didnt eat.
What about True North? Aren't there any studies being conducted there?
Sixty day fasting is nuts. Does the study say how long he actually fasted before ending up in the hospital? My opinion, based on my own experience with fasting. is that up to 2 weeks of water fasting is safe and beneficial for most people. You should do your own research first, especially if you have serious acute afflictions. A 2 week fast will also help reset your taste buds and appetite so as to aid in maintaining a healthy diet. You can also do a mono-diet like eating just plain baked/boiled potatoes for 2 weeks to rest your taste buds.
@NutritionFactsOrg
Жыл бұрын
Hi, crb2061! I agree that fasting for 60 days is ill-advised. Dr. Greger does not suggest fasting for more than 24 hours without medical supervision. The person in the paper cited in the video arrived in the hospital in a comatose state, and in respiratory failure at day 53 of the fast, as you can read here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26104844/. You can find everything on our site related to fasting here: nutritionfacts.org/topics/fasting/ I hope that helps! -Christine Kestner, MS, CNS, LDN, MPH, NutritionFacts.org Health Support Volunteer
@uffa00001
6 ай бұрын
An Italian Doctor, Salvatore Simeone, reported, in a book, a case of a person who healed her leg which was in septicemia with 60, or 90 I don't remember, days of water fasting. The hospital proposed the amputation of the leg, and in fact told her that she was going to die without surgery. She decided to fast instead, and saved her leg. Long fasts can be absolutely powerful. She did this long fast while being assisted by said Doctor. Jason Fung reports a fasting, in his clinic, which lasted 385 days, no calories, only a broth and vitamin and salts supplements. Again, such long fasts should be undertaken under medical supervision (that can be made by phone as well).
I feel like if you're going to wade into these waters you need to give some direct guidance to people currently dealing with cancer to be 100% clear about what what they should do with this advice. I could totally imagine people I know hearing this, quitting their current treatment plan, and water fasting with no oversight from a doctor.
@LadyBovine
Жыл бұрын
What more can he do than present the findings, as well as presenting a warning that fasting carries risk (he talked about a case of a guy ending up in hospital doing a water fast) and then advising healthy plant-based eating? People need to use common sense (and ears) sometimes. Better he give info than guidance. He's not their doctor.
@maryj7423
Жыл бұрын
I agree. Doctor Greger specializes in reporting research results. Healthy people can take up his advice anytime but sick ones need guidance from a physician. I remember some do, and even have centers in the USA. I'd look up Dr. John McDougall and Dr. Neil Barnard.
@jamesclerkmaxwell8020
Жыл бұрын
What if fasting works, lets say even only slightly better than chemotherapies ? Why are no studies engaged on humans on a large scale ? Dr. Longo proved fasting killed /drastically reduced cancer in mice more than a decade ago. Why still no studies after this ?!
@velatoget
Жыл бұрын
He never told anyone to quit their treatments. If someone did that, well... too bad? Don't do bad thing, do good thing. There's no point in this video in which it is implied to do something stupid.
@mcfaddenhall2896
Жыл бұрын
@Mats "people need to use common sense" Have you met people? /s
Not too sound too cynical, but could the initial diagnosis of her lymphoma been incorrect?
@ricvanwinkle1665
7 ай бұрын
Not stage 3
@xzookeeper
5 ай бұрын
I had NHL in 2001. I did chemo two times. I was supposed to do 6. The two chemos got rid of the disease. Now I have stage 4 b peritoneal carcinomatosis and have done 6 different chemos, and vegan diet. Nothing has touched this. My cancer is still very healthy.
@xzookeeper
4 ай бұрын
Update. I got very sick and was in so much pain I could not eat for 4 days and had barely anything to drink for those 4 days. I was forced into almost a complete dry fast. I was surprised it reversed my malignant ascites which is unheard of.
There goes Ivor Cummins 😂
16 hours fasting 8 hours off For complet one month annually.... In whole life time Besides not eating nor drinkin too much,while 8 hurs permission In islamic faith It is compulsory for who can tolerate... one pillars of islamic submission to god Direct order and relevation from creator....🤔 4:32 4:32
we need more studies on dry fasting, i do not like water fasting nor do i think its the best way to fast. 3 days dry fast does wonders, more people should do that.
@sharonbella9303
10 ай бұрын
They did it a lot in the Bible for 3 days of dry fasting without dying But people should take it slow at first
@ricvanwinkle1665
7 ай бұрын
I did 24 hours and handled it well. Not ready for much more at this point
@sudd3660
7 ай бұрын
@@ricvanwinkle1665 that is not long time to dry fast, if i skip my breakfast i fast for 20 hours. i am pretty sure that says something about your state of health. i think we can learn a lot from people reaction to dry fasts.
Hippocrates health institute diet.
Ketosis heals, confirmed.
@KenWang2
9 ай бұрын
@@focusedstudying8993 no proof
@f1msaman
8 ай бұрын
@@focusedstudying8993when you are fasting you are in ketosis. Educate yourself bruh
Hippocrates health institute diet.