Says the vegan.. yeah, right! I find raw ruminant meats quite refreshing, almost as delicious as rare, certainly far from disgusting. I guess I'm veering way off-topic now though.. best wishes to OP's mum!

This post has been edited by metaleap: Oct 7 2015, 02:14 AM

Indeed, and this could be a neat, cost-free hack to vastly improve the chemo experience and outcome:

https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers...-immune-system/

All carbs get quickly converted to glucose in either the stomach or the small intestine (can't remember, probably the latter) before hitting the bloodstream and then the cells & tissues of your body. So if you don't have intestinal or stomach cancer, refined sugar equals brown rice or whole grain bread etc --- in terms of what the rest of the body sees or receives. Refined sugar (and a few other carbs) contains fructose which without fruit fibre is pretty damaging and stressful on the liver (but if not liver cancer, again, doesn't matter), so maybe that's where any statistical correlations (if they exist and are meaningful enough) between refined sugar and certain cancers may have their underlying cause, not sure.

The simple cliche "sugar feeds cancer or malignant tumors" just isn't accurate across the board. There's 100s of very different kinds of cancers and tumors, only some feed exclusively on blood glucose (and of those, only some can be "starved" by restricting or eliminating dietary carbs in some cases). There's others that can feed on fatty acids, and I think a very few rare ones even on ketones. Now carbs are somewhat immunosuppressive, so cutting them out may in select cases give that "immune boost" needed to eliminate the tumor regardless of what it feeds on. Metastases however in many cases seem to be dependent on glucose turnover, though this is just from memory and hearsay. But there's no guarantees either way proven to work in 100% (or anywhere near that) of cases of any and all 100s of kinds of cancers --- not ancient herbs, not green tea, not apricot kernels, or veganism, or fruitarianism, or juice fasting, or keto, or chemo. Sad truth.

This post has been edited by metaleap: Oct 8 2015, 12:29 AM

B.S.