Diet helps get rid of cancer faster

Nature reports that diet, the "ketone diet," improves brain and muscle function and also helps cancer drugs kill tumors faster. "Such an effective effect of the ketone diet on the results of chemotherapy leads us to reflect on how certain therapeutic traditions – such as glucose droplet and diet – can help," said a group of Mayer scientists Cancer Center of New York. High-sugar foods, or glucocorticoids, for the resilience of cancer patients. "

The so-called" ketone diet ", is spreading rapidly today among fitness and sports enthusiasts.This diet is characterized by other food systems, that the main source of calories, not in carbohydrates, but in fats and proteins.This change forces the brain and other body organs not to use glucose, but fatty acids and ketones as the main source of energy. [19659003] This system forces muscles and brain cells to switch to a special special "energy saving" system, which makes the muscles more durable and the brain more resistant to aging.

For this reason , the "ketone diet" is particularly prevalent today among cyclists, marathon runners and other sports requiring endurance.

Hopkins and his colleagues found a new use unexpectedly from this diet during their study of the behavior of cancer cells generated by one of the most common mutations – damage in the PI3KCA gene. This section of DNA, responsible for the transfer of different signaling molecules inside the cells, is damaged by "reprogramming" these molecules, and causes them to decompose continuously.

Scientists have recently discovered that the level of activity of PIK3CA, related to the amount of insulin and glucose in the cell – the higher the amount of the hormone is, the higher the gene becomes active. This led the group of scientists to conclude that the reduction and encirclement of the gene and its badociated protein could make cancer cells more susceptible to chemotherapy. But the effect of inhibitory substances for PI3KCA was temporary – only for several hours. Indeed, the body's reaction to this substance is summed up by increasing the production of insulin and glucose, so that the body's cells "ignore" the molecules of the drug. This problem was overcome by using the diet mentioned above with Gliflozin and this allowed the elimination of all the negative side effects that accompanied the PI3KCA inhibitor process.

In the near future, Benjamin Hopkins and his colleagues will conduct clinical trials on humans to verify the effectiveness and safety of this method for fighting tumors and cancer in humans.

Source: Novosti