Fasting Mimicking Diet Before and After Chemotherapy

[@thetinmansheart]

I just had my 2nd chemo treatment with carboplatin and ppaclitaxol. I water fasted the day before,the day of, and the day after each round. I experienced absolutely zero nausea, diarrhea, malaise…only bone ache for about a week starting on the 4th day after infusion. I also used the frozen booties and mittens during infusion and have experienced zero neuropathy.

[@GnomeGardeners]

I start carbo platin 5 / paclitaxol 175 on Friday, 6 cycles, 21 days apart. I have the cold mitts/socks and Paxman cold cap system. Considering fasting pre/during/post. Where are you in your cycles? Are you still fasting? How are the chemo side effects? Wishing you well.

[@minifix]

The fasting-mimicking diet is really the most incredible nutritional therapy I've ever encountered. The finding that it triggers the release of stem cells is nothing short of miraculous.

[@happycook6737]

What is a fasting mimicking diet? Is this same as intermittent fasting? I'm confused.

[@minifix]

​@@happycook6737 A fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) is a diet designed to mimick the effects of water-only fasting - hence the "mimick" in the name. It was designed by Dr. Valter Longo, a researcher on aging who found that water-only fasting can slow down or reverse aging, prevent or reverse cancer to some extent, as well as mitigate many other diseases. He also discovered that diets low in protein and sugar, but high in plants and complex carbohydrates, increase human longevity and general health. However, he found that water-only fasting was often too difficult for patients to follow, and carried serious risks. That's why he and his team spent a lot of time trying to design a program that could give the same effects as water-only fasting, but without being difficult or dangerous to follow. What they came up with was the FMD - essentially a vegan keto program that is done for 3-5 days (never longer than 5 days since keto extremely harmful in the long run, and since the diet is heavily calorie restricted). Depending on the individual's state of health, Dr. Longo recommends this 5-day program be done on a regular basis, maybe once or twice per year or in extreme cases once per month. There are many incredible benefits from this in the research, including reducing waist circumference without any real muscle loss, and extending human lifespan by several decades. But the most mind-blowing effect to me is the release of stem cells from the bone marrow, which theoretically means it could be used to treat nearly any disease. For example, they showed that the stem-cells repaired damaged pancreas cells in type-1 diabetic mice, meaning there is a real possibility it could cure people with T1D. [WARNING! Don't do the FMD if you have diabetes, there's a good chance you'll die. There have been no clinical trials on this in humans, for obvious reasons.] As for your question on intermittent fasting, there's really hundreds of eating patterns out there that could be classified as "intermittent fasting". It's a kind of useless term since it's so general - but yes, technically you could consider FMD a type of intermittent fasting.

[@miguels703]

I would like some answers too

[@isaacguedes]

Fmd is a plant based restricted diet (700 Kal a day). The body enter a fasting state loweting igf1 hormone

[@isaacguedes]

You can search for prolon fmd. Just Google it

[@xamomax]

As a thank you for not making this one a cliffhanger video, $20 donated. Keep up the great work!

[@Salamander407]

Donated again! Love you Dr Gregor! With you, cardiologist Kim Williams, Dr Andrew Fung and my physician I have lost 74 lbs and best labs in 6 years. Fasting and plant based diet. Keep up the great work!!!!

[@luckyhanger1326]

really good stuff!

[@gbubemia]

This is a great series! Thanks Dr. Greger!

[@livefromplanetearth]

reducing signaling during key traumatic events is good thinking 🙏🏾

[@sudd3660]

haven't we already made it clear that chemotherapy is not working anyways. still we need to rescue the gullible radiation victims.

[@isaacguedes]

Fasting + Chemo works...

[@sudd3660]

@@isaacguedes you really should look into the chemo video before you talk. its pretty recent, otherwise you would not have commented.

[@Madasin_Paine]

Along that lines, is to accentuate the rarely mentioned grave fact that a relatively low percentage of cancers can be "cured". What's more is that success yardstick was traditionally 5 years. 10 year survival studies may be more common. Sadly people in the last 5 years of life or less, in their last quarter of life, get the full package from chemo, radiation and surgery, depleting not only much of the family or individual assets possibly, but forcing the victim out of home, their habits, final legacy efforts to others, denying them even less quality of life and mindfulness, perhaps much less, while enduring the serious potentially acutely deadly adverse effects and subsequent polypharmacy l, intensive care, infection immunosuppression and a myriad of rate limiting side effects of "treatment. And the survivability rates known are likely not based on oldest old with chronic diseases and unstable health, thus, the unknown or unsatisfying life after becoming a "survivor" remains in acceptably ambiguous. Apparently conflicts of interest exist in hospital groups, physician pools, oncology, surgery, parenteral nutrition and diagnostics. Not only so, pay attention to the difference in opinion between the physician in charge during hospitalization, hopefully an internal medicine specialist, the oncologist, the surgeon and those with the least medical expertise amongst them that pressure the physician in charge to protect the profit bottom line by encouraging the course of care regarding transferring the patient to other units, keeping the victim in the hospital or discharging them. The more time in a hospital can become a risk itself and reconciliation upon discharge, or making sure their is coherence between treatment regimen before during and after discharge, too likely not done appropriately, can result in so many problems after that discharge, that it causes iatrogenic injury or injury from malpractice and poorly or untracked close calls, that its a leading reason morbidity and mortality away and or readmissions later. In other words the aforementioned should be part of a robust discussion between any relevant medical provider during the entire process of treatment beginning before it even begins during and after. Do not expect this to be addressed in a effective way that a frightened sick person can fully comprehend and think critically about who may indeed be alone or with another person who also doesn't understand it and chances are lacking and advocate with the medical confidence to do so. Sadly the wealthy you are the more likely you'll get treatment but also more likely you'll get too much treatment but on the other hand if you don't have good coverage you're more likely to be dumped and not given the best options while it matters most if they are initiated in time at all. The lower lifespan the mortality rates the incidence of iatrogenics and so forth are statistics that would support these contentions. It is another signal that the medical industrial complex that favors pharma lab companies hospital groups medical device makers physician pools labor unions and insurance companies over the patient they are all there to allegedly help and first do no harm to. This is a bipartisan grossly negligent product of politics and a public to incapable to understand or do something about it based on the outcomes of the past 40 years especially the last 3 years . Whenever you hear about hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on national security in terms of defense we see how little national security we actually have at home from the hospitals to the streets to the infrastructure to have safe people feel in their own homes or workplaces. $30 trillion dollars in federal debt alone that is impossible to account and particularly glaring failures at multiple attempts to do accounting of the trillions of missing on accounted for dollars at the depart me nt of def en$€ or p€nt∆gon. F€€£ F®€€ ‽™

[@Madasin_Paine]

@@isaacguedes How well how often, which Cancers and which cancers not? A pretty meaningless if not misinforming overly optimistic statement wouldn't you say?

[@Alex-mp1zb]

@sudd3660 You shouldn't talk like that. My chemo isn't working and neither is my water 5-day water fasting... Also I'm vegetarian.

[@AndrewPawley11]

Superb!

[@androz38]

Excellent work!

[@sirgaymeerkat1994]

a plant based diet sound better and better after Dr gregor's videos!💚

[@benwallman5378]

he is insane. dont trust a word that comes out this vegans mouth. There is no reliable evidence showing animal protein and fats to be harmful, do your own research. read the big meta-analysis papers out there p.s. im a nutritionist.

[@benwallman5378]

i literally heal people with cancer going on a grass fed beef diet, comprising of only the meat protein and its fat, with included liver and kidney supplements.

[@sirgaymeerkat1994]

@ben wallman two replies and both disappear! but I can reply to them as anyone can see! veganism must scare people to push out comments and then delete them!

[@sirgaymeerkat1994]

@ben wallman second reply that's now deleted! are you a nutcase! buy a pack of Kleenex and go make better use of your time!

[@shaunr5450]

Does this guy look healthy to you?

[@ericgouw]

So maybe... Cancer (and tumor in general, I suppose) are formed because of excess of protein intake?

[@AnHourOfWolves]

So is it possible that the fasting that helps might just be because you stop eating IGF1 promoting food? I guess it also reduces symptoms, which likely means something else is going on.

[@tinker651]

My guess is the lack of bombardment from inflammatory foods allows the body to actually put effort towards the actual threat in the body. Only my guess

[@Addy_Hawaii]

👍🏽

[@eelkeaptroot1393]

So you're saying all they need to come up with is a protease inhibiting monocolonal antibody and that could work about as well?

[@xo7454]

Annoying way of talking but good information.

[@ExtraSubtle]

What's up with the "Fundraiser" tag? Let him get a job like the rest of us.

[@patp550]

He is trying to make money for his organization. He could be a multi millionaire from the sale of his best selling books, but he donates the proceeds to charity. His nutrition advice stems from unbiased research that is important since at least here in America, we die prematurely from heart attacks strokes and cancer compared to many other countries due to our eating habits and lifestyle.

[@manisthemeasure2205]

You don’t have to listen or donate. Just scroll through. You do know you have that option, right?

[@birddog3130]

Sorry Boss, this is too wisy-washy