According to the American Cancer Society, for the first time ever, the USA will experience more than 2 million new cancer cases in a single year:
Cancer seems to be surging and, using public figures as a safety signal, a recent report by
shows that King Charles is afflicted and there are other reports of public figures such as the one by about the cancer death of Toby Keith.Nutrition is a big factor in cancer risk and, according to the National Cancer Institute, one thing you can do is to increase your vegetables, especially your cruciferous veggies:
A kale salad with chopped broccoli, cauliflower, and radishes in it — sprinkled with blueberries and topped with lemon juice and olive oil and spices — could be of big help in the fight against cancer. More than one of these salads per day may be of even more help.
Turkey, chicken, boiled egg, and/or salmon can be added for protein.
Salads are good because of the Warburg Effect, where cancer cells have been proven to metabolize sugar at a higher rate than normal cells, so that lower-carbohydrate diets have more of a chance to either starve them to death, or at least weaken them. A good level to shoot for is to have only 30% or less of calories come from net carbohydrates.
While high in fiber, salads are very low in the net (fiber-free) carbohydrates which can raise blood glucose the most. To find net carbohydrates, just subtract the fiber grams from the total carbohydrates. If eating 1,900 kcals a day, dividing it into 4 meals a day, then you’d cap your net carbs to 36 grams per meal for a daily cap of 144 grams.
Just adding a single, 12-ounce soft drink (has more than 36 grams sugar), once added to your healthy salad, would derail your entire meal with regard to use of the Warburg Effect to help starve cancer cells.
Promising Dietary Supplements
Other promising gambles would include dietary supplements, such as a multi-vitamin along with additional, supra-nutritional doses of vitamin C, vitamin D, and vitamin E. A supra-nutritional dose is typically beyond the dose you’d get from eating well.
If you are willing to spend about $160 each month, and willing to take 24 pills a day, then the rest of this article may be of interest to you. Here is a spreadsheet showing products that look promising regarding cancer risk:
The item at top is a daily multi-vitamin. The next 4 items all involve vitamin C and they go together (a quadruple-combo of vitamin C). Research has revealed that the maximum tolerated oral dose (MTOD) of vitamin C is about 12,000 milligrams (12 grams) — and that that dose gets you plasma levels above 200 micromoles per liter.
That’s similar to the plasma levels seen with intravenous dosing.
But a main complaint is gastrointestinal, including osmotic diarrhea from vitamin C passing through your GI tract rather than getting absorbed. To prevent that, I developed a 4-part vitamin C protocol utilizing buffering (first product), time-release (second product), liposomal delivery (third product), and bioflavonoids (fourth product).
Those four vitamin C products would each be taken together, at 4 different times a day, with food each time — adding a fifth factor to prevent the side-effects of high-dosing. In cell E19, I opted for half-dosing the bioflavonoids, reducing the monthly cost of the program.
The next two products focus on vitamin D, and the last one is a special vitamin E pill. Those are fat-soluble vitamins and they only need to be taken once a day, like the multi-vitamin. In cell E31, I opted for half-dosing of the special (gamma-tocopherol) vitamin E, reducing the monthly costs further.
Research indicates that those nutrients are promising gambles in the fight against cancer.
Reference
[maximum tolerated oral dose of vitamin C] — Padayatty SJ, Sun H, Wang Y, Riordan HD, Hewitt SM, Katz A, Wesley RA, Levine M. Vitamin C pharmacokinetics: implications for oral and intravenous use. Ann Intern Med. 2004 Apr 6;140(7):533-7. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-140-7-200404060-00010. PMID: 15068981. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15068981/
[2 million cancers in a single year] — American Cancer Society. https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/facts-and-figures-2024.html
[vitamin D cut cancer mortality by 13% in a meta-analysis] — National Cancer Institute. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/vitamin-d-fact-sheet
[ODS fact sheet on vitamin C] — Office of Dietary Supplements. National Institutes of Health. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminC-Consumer/
[sugary drinks] — Harvard School of Public Health. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/sugary-drinks/
[the gamma-tocopherol form of vitamin E killed prostate cancer cells] — Jiang Q, Wong J, Fyrst H, Saba JD, Ames BN. gamma-Tocopherol or combinations of vitamin E forms induce cell death in human prostate cancer cells by interrupting sphingolipid synthesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Dec 21;101(51):17825-30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408340102. Epub 2004 Dec 13. PMID: 15596715; PMCID: PMC535585. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535585/
[the Warburg Effect] — National Cancer Institute. https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/ras/news-events/dialogue-blog/2021/vander-heiden-warburg-effect
Aerobic glycolysis is best characterized by a shift of pyruvate carbons away from the TCA cycle and towards fermentation, rather than an upregulation of glycolysis at the expense of oxidative phosphorylation. This distinction is a subtle but important one, as ETC activity has been showed to be required for tumorigenesis and cell proliferation [16, 17].
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[multi-vitamins cut the relative risk of lung cancer by 25%] — O'Connor EA, Evans CV, Ivlev I, Rushkin MC, Thomas RG, Martin A, Lin JS. Vitamin and Mineral Supplements for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force. JAMA. 2022 Jun 21;327(23):2334-2347. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.15650. PMID: 35727272. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35727272/