Can Ketogenic Diets Fight Cancer?

Maylin Rodriguez-Paez RN

A ketogenic diet is where carbs are limited and ketones (fats) are the body’s main source of energy. The ketogenic diet was first made popular as an epilepsy treatment. It helped children manage seizures before the invention of anticonvulsant drugs.

And while it’s gone out of favor as an epilepsy treatment, the diet is now being revisited for a whole different purpose: as a cancer therapy.

Researchers from the University of South Florida found that a combination of oxygen therapy and a ketogenic diet stopped the spread of cancer in mice and increased their survival. The …read more