Ask Dr. Z - Sugar Consumption and Cancer

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My husband and I have been on the candida/hypoglycemia program for 7 days and we are both absolutely amazed at the difference we feel already and in such a short time.

When I wake up in the morning, I am now feeling rested and ready for the day. No longer do we get the “afternoon sleepies” and are sleeping much better at night. Increased energy levels are amazing.

I have not had the body aches and the lethargy/depression seem to have abated. Added benefit is we have both lost around 4 lbs in a week. We have been sticking to the diet pretty rigorously.

We did have one blip, which really brought home how bad refined sugar is. We went to a wedding Sunday and did well with the food, but broke down and had a piece of cake. We both had horrendous headaches the rest of the day into the evening and felt terrible. Lesson learned!

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Cancer Cell June 2006, Vol. 9, No. 6: 425-434 (Abstract of recent Harvard Study)

All cells require energy for their functioning and survival. A healthy human cell requires oxygen and glucose/sugar to make energy. When tumor cells grow, they tend to become crowded and can lose access to oxygen carried by red blood cells in the blood vessels.

In the 20's Otto Warburg, a German physician was awarded a Nobel Prize for first uncovering cancer cells' massive dependence on sugar as a fuel source. He discovered further that some cancer cells developed the ability to switch over to an ancient, oxygen-free route, the glycolytic pathway. What is remarkable, they continue to use this pathway even when access to oxygen is restored. Though this so-called Warburg Effect has since been confirmed, the role played by glycolysis in cancer has been largely ignored. Few have attempted to attack specific points along the glycolytic pathway to gain a therapeutic effect.

Researchers from the Harvard Medical School discovered that blocking one of the glycolytic pathway's enzymes, LDH-A, may be an effective anti-cancer therapy.

The researchers found a way to block LDH-A and thus to shut down glycolysis in breast cancer cells. They implanted these cells in mice. Among the LDH-A deficient mice, only two died, one at 16 weeks and the other at 18 weeks, and 80 percent were still living at the end of the four-month study.

In contrast, the control mice, which had tumor cells with a working glycolytic pathway, died at 10 weeks or before.

The researchers concluded that blocking LDH-A in the glycolytic pathway could be an effective way to fight cancer.

Cancer is now the number one killer in the United States; it surpassed heart disease last year. Could that be related to the other societal health disasters that we find ourselves in?

High insulin levels are usually present and may be major contributing factors in both heath problems.

The prevailing societal addiction to high carbohydrate foods has created a new and modern plague. Here is why:

Insulin removes sugar/glucose from the blood into the cells so the cells can make energy. Excess glucose not needed for cell energy is stored as glycogen and fat.

Continuous high carb consumption leads to chronically elevated insulin responses with the following devastating consequences:

The consumption of too many carbs too often leads to many other chronic health problems: hypertension, high levels of cholesterol and other lipids, heart disease, kidney disease, female infertility and degenerative changes in brain and nervous system.

Our on-line Self Evaluation is geared towards giving you a basic starting point in order to make some intelligent changes in diet and improve some basic human functions such as digestion, blood sugar control.

If you have ever taken antibiotics, yesterday or 30 years ago - the chances are high that you may suffer the consequences of bowel flora imbalance and candida overgrowth.

However, the majority of my local and on-line clients experience dramatic improvements in their health, when they address
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