What does cancer feed on?
You may have heard of the hypothesis that cancer cells feed on sugar to spread and survive.
And consequently it would be enough to eliminate all carbohydrates so that those who discover that they have cancer can “starve” it by removing their main food resource from these cells.

A hypothesis that then led to recommending low carb or ketogenic diets to cancer patients to combat evil.
But is this really the case?

The latest studies of recent years, one of which has just come out, partially disproves this hypothesis.
Hypothesis that derives indirectly from the Warburg effect , a theory that cancer cells use glucose like normal cells for energy. But they produce lactate instead of pyruvate from glycolysis.

However, this does not mean that cancer cells can die in the absence of glucose. Warburg only explained that cancer cells exhibit altered metabolism in energy production, as if they were fermenting, in essence.

In this article we will look at recent studies, with the final recommendation not to exclude carbohydrates from your diet if you find out that you are sick.
A recommendation absolutely in accordance with the main guidelines, which recommend following a healthy but balanced diet, to support the state of health.

WHAT DOES CANCER FEED ON?
THIS IS WHAT THE LATEST STUDIES REVEAL

• Scientists at UCLA’s Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have found that skin squamous cell cancers do not require increased glucose to fuel their development and growth, contrary to popular belief. long on cancer metabolism.
  “These findings suggest that tumors are metabolically flexible and may use nutrients other than glucose to promote growth ,” said Christofk, associate professor of biological chemistry and molecular and medical pharmacology at UCLA.
• A division of the University of Texas conducted a study on leukemia , finding that once cells don’t get glucose from their diet, they use fatty acids to survive.
  Heinrich Taegtmeyer, author of the study, said: “Cancer cells’ appetite for fat seems formidable. But more importantly, it appears that fat oxidation promotes the survival of diseased cells ”.
  Researchers have found that drugs that reduce fat absorption, such as the famous Orlistat, lead to the wasting of leukemic cancer cells.
• A group of Sunford Burnham researchers found that without a source of glutamine, a non-essential amino acid found in meat (especially raw), nuts, eggs, dairy products and salmon, melanoma cells stop proliferating and die.
• Professor Craig Jordan of the University of Colorado made another interesting discovery regarding leukemia. In fact, he saw that cancer cells would behave like parasites, removing glucose from healthy cells.
  In summary, they would starve healthy cells and this would lead to the risk of weight loss and cachexia in patients. He also found that body fat is partly responsible for this process.
  Adipocytes, therefore fat cells, would produce a key protein for the development of tumors, IGFBP1. The more fat cells you have, the higher the risk of getting cancer.