Current Cancer Treatments vs. Ketogenic Diets

Cancers are known to be very complex and devious. Treatments for cancers usually have been toxic chemotherapies (chemo) for the last 50 years. Unfortunately, except for some relatively rare cancers, most adult cancers respond poorly to chemo. Cocktails of multiple drugs may prolong life for a few weeks or perhaps months. Life prolongation is surely worthwhile to achieve, but it is often of poor quality because of toxic chemo side effects.

It would be better to offer superior treatments while reducing side effects. We propose that ketogenic diets have the potential to do this, at least for some cancers. While unproven in clinical trials we will explain why ketogenic diets seriously deserve to be studied.