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My wife is Stage 3, ++- (43 yo) and half way through the taxol phase of an ACT regimen; she is progressing well but I know she has the discipline to do a fasting diet if we thought it would help. Any thoughts on starting this mid-way through the treatment?

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Absolutely not a doctor, so no way qualified to give professional advice, but the article states that not everyone followed the diet during all treatments, so they included all patients who complied at least during half of the cases, and the positive results are based on this extended group. This, and the suggested mechanism of why they think the method works, would lead me to believe that it makes sense to try it.

Wish you & your wife strength and all the best.

Try it. My mom (she left us last year at only 53, unfortunately) and I did intermittent fasting (>=16 hours), and ate a super clean and mainly ovolactovegetarian diet for most of her illness. Her life expectancy was only six months, with breast cancer and methastasis; she endured six years.

Do anything you can to help her be healthy. Diet is of extreme impoortance.

I'm sorry to hear that about your wife and wish her all the best. As I'm not a medical professional and don't know your wife's exact situation, I'd say it'd be best to bring it up with your wife's oncologist that you'd like to give it a shot. I doubt they'd object for trying it for a cycle or two, but they know best.

I'm not a doctor, but after reading Tripping Over the Truth: The Metabolic Theory of Cancer [0] I'd strongly suggest she start fasting, or, far better, order yourself a copy of the book (epubs available for purchase/torrent) and read it, decide for yourself. There are a lot of resources listed in the book for people who have cancer.

I'm trying to get people to read the book. Average people, for sure, but also people on boards of research institutions. I wrote this to one of them: https://josh.works/mike-clayville-can-have-a-huge-impact-on-...

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23496164-tripping-over-t...

The ideas contained in the book are explosive, with profound implications. It's a riveting read.

Why is it that as soon as cancer comes up as a topic, people stop exchanging arguments and start selling books instead, where normally they would be paraphrasing and occasionally referencing something.

I left a longer answer to a similar question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24260568

A book is nothing but a long, detailed, carefully-researched argument. Or, at least the book I'm recommending is that.

If there are words I can say to convince you to read the book, please tell me them.

I'm literally paying people to read the book.[0]

I would love suggestions on how to improve the average discourse on the topic. What would you suggest?

Could you read through the linked thread, tell me if there's anything there that I should bring over here?

[0]: https://josh.works/mike-clayville-can-have-a-huge-impact-on-...

Not buying from you, not helping you sell for free.

Idk what brought you on your mission, but your pitches interrupt discussions.

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