Could Diet Adjustment Prevent Aggressive Prostate Cancer?

“Could Diet Adjustment Prevent Aggressive Prostate Cancer?” – an article from Cancer Therapy Advisor can be accessed here.

Comments from Dr. Rosenberg on the article:

Please do not use the ketogenic diet for all cancers! Prostate cancer has a different metabolic phenotype than the classic glycolytic cancers, where the “Warburg effect” applies. 

Prostate cancer tends to increase their uptake of amino acids, such as glutamine and arginine, as well as fatty acids. Prostate cancer also increases expression of the enzyme fatty acid synthase, to help synthesize long-chain fatty acids. As I mentioned in prior issues, there is significant data to suggest that statins may inhibit prostate cancer. Because of prostate cancer’s reliance on lipids, the FDG-PET scan is not an ideal imaging study. 

So what kind of diet should prostate cancer patients follow? Low fat diet, but keep in mind, that as the cancer progresses and mutates, some of the lesions may become glycolytic, requiring low carbohydrate intake as well.

healthyliving January 10th, 2019

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