In the time that I have spent studying cancer and alternative therapies, I have noted an interesting factor.

While I am strongly against most chemotherapy, I have noticed something about it that is in common with the efforts of some alternative cancer therapies.

Chemo makes most patients sick, often too sick to eat. I have heard more than one oncologist comment that if chemo does not make a patient too sick to eat, it does not work well.

So, apparantly, chemo may be working through forced fasting and the chemo drugs themselves may not really be doing much good other than this.

So how does that apply to alternative therapies? Just look. Alternative therapies such as Budwig, Brandt, etc. include periods of fasting. Others such as Gerson require only juiced vegetable which reduces caloric intake, another form of fasting.

These alternative methods often succeed when traditional therapies fail.

So the question that I present here is: Is fasting the answer to beating cancer?

What fasting does:

1) Lowers the blood sugar. Cancer requires extensive Sugar to grow.

2) Allows the body to flush out excessive toxins. During periods when there is little food coming into the body, the body will continue to excrete waste reducing the build up that has occurred over time.

3) Creates a hunger mode in the body which may cause the immune system to become more active and attack tumors and potential tumors.

4) Generally causes the body to become more alkaline.

How long to fast? Be sensible, start out one day at a time. Drink nothing but water ( mineral water with calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium ) for 24 hours. At the end of the first day do an Epsom Salt cleanse to flush out the intestines. Following this take a table spoon of Yogurt or Kefir every hour or so for the next 3-4 hours. Continue drinking plenty of water. Your first meal should be lite and low calorie. I like to start out with a good salad. Brandt suggest eating only grapes, Budwig suggests cottage cheese and flaxseed oil. Gerson suggests juiced vegetables but I would avoid the high Sugar stuff such as beets, carrots, etc.

If you feel OK, start the process again.

I would expect the longer that you fast, the better the results but use extreme care if you are cachectic. I would suggest at least some vegetable juices daily to avoid serious malnutrition.