We are very excited to inform you

Jun 14, 2017

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We are very excited to inform youWe want all of you to be aware that we have experienced a breakthrough in support for our research which happened because of you.
A philanthropic donor found us on the Experiment.com site. He has since made a very large donation that enables us to perform our human cancer trial, previously rejected by the NIH. The donation also has sufficient resources to fund a) our proposed animal study coupling a ketogenic diet with anti-cancer drugs and b) our ongoing cell culture studies that shed light on mechanisms of cancer control due to ketosis. We have already obtained approval from our institutional review board (IRB) and we're now assembling our team of researchers. 
The clinical trial itself will start recruiting patients around September of this year. None of this would have happened without Experiment.com or your support. Our campaign raised the awareness of many generous individuals to reach into their pockets. Finally it was your action which inspired our donor to help us too. 
We wanted to update all of the donors, that is all of you, for your commitment to our goals, and to your enthusiastic, heartfelt and truly meaningful support.  We are honoring the donor’s wishes to remain anonymous. We obviously feel enormously grateful at our good fortune. 
Thank you again!

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Joseph E Glaser

Hi Dr. Fine: Great news! Best, Joe

May 12, 20191

celeste kelseyBacker

This is so thrilling. How long will the Trial and various studies last and can we continue to expect updates?

Aug 12, 20170

Eugene J FineResearcher

Hi Celeste, The trial will last 1 1/2 to 2 years. From the point of view of wonderful contributors such as yourself we won't be seeing or reporting results until after all recruitment is completed.(65 patients in total at about 3 per month will take almost two years) and then we will do all the blood and tissue measurements in one batch to insure they are all processed exactly the same way. So this may be frustrating or disappointing for you, but we are determined to insure the most reliable and accurate results. However I do believe that we will be able to report interim results of our important ancillary experiments that are also now funded--namely our animal studies in which we couple diet with anti-cancer drugs, and our cell culture studies. We deeply appreciate all of your continued interest and support. Thank you again. Gene and Richard

Aug 12, 20170

celeste kelseyBacker

Thank you for the prompt response...I do not feel the wait time is frustrating or disappointing...but knowing what to expect removes concerns for what otherwise might seem like a delay. Hope you both are enjoying yourself...I look forward to having the science to back up the "opinions" I have liberally been sharing. :)

Aug 12, 20170

Mark Bruns

Tell me how I can help! I am 57, entrepreneur, engineer, farmer ... no cancer [if that's what what you are looking for in recruited patients] but definitely very interested! Need to find ways to adjust my personal lifestyle [to be a better example to others] AND our [main farming] business model ... for last 5 mo or so, I've been experimenting heavily, making an adjustment toward a intermittent/extended fasting lifestyle, or at least a Hofmelker undereating/overeating LCHF ketogenic muscle building [or at least maintenance] approach for an old man ... my attempt to become better informed is how I stumbled onto this particular effort ... and what you are doing is TRULY exciting, revolutionary stuff! I wish more people knew about your project ... I think more people could benefit from participating in or at least following this study and rethinking how science is typically done in America ... I missed out on the earlier crowdfunding campaign, but maybe there will others in the future -- I am VERY anxious to be of whatever assistance I can.

Jul 12, 20170

Eugene J FineResearcher

Dear Mark, Thank you so much for your enthusiastic support and offer of assistance. We don't have an immediate mechanism to integrate you into our program, but that's not to say that it can't be done. I'm on vacation until the end of July (first extended break since I was 20), but we can be in touch on my return in August. Best would be to give me your preferred contact information and I will connect with you in early August. Best, Gene and Richard

Jul 13, 20170

Omar Ali

This is awesome news!

Jun 19, 20170

Nick PapageorgeBacker

Brilliant!!!

Jun 16, 20170

William Davies

Mild prostate cancer. 70yrs. Occasional Faster. Love to help.

Jun 16, 20170

Gloria Hoagland

How do I get into the trial? I have stage 2 brain cancer.

Jun 15, 20170

George HendersonBacker

Well done everyone and especially the new donor. Science progresses one donation at a time.

Jun 15, 20170

Jeanette Jones Backer

Fantastic news 😀

Jun 15, 20171

Ahmed Elsakka

how can I participate as one of reserch team ??

Jun 15, 20170

Eugene J FineResearcher

We're fully staffed, so the stage of assembling our team is that of training our hired members to perform their necessary functions. Thank you for your interest.

Jun 15, 20170

Ahmed Elsakka

I'm neuro metabolism spicialest from Egypt and I used ketogenic metabolic therapy with my patients suffering from brain glioms alone or combined with DCA or glutamine target strategy . I have excellent result. let me know if you need any data regard this patient's that may help you . E-MAIL ahmedelsakka40@Yahoo.com

Jun 16, 20171

Daniel BrownBacker

That's wonderful. Very exciting. Congratulations and good luck!

Jun 15, 20170

Cereal Killers MovieBacker

Incredible news! Well done to all involved.

Jun 15, 20171

Alix HaydenBacker

Congratulations!!

Jun 15, 20170

celeste kelseyBacker

Kudos! Couldn't be happier for you. Another win for WWW. Don't know what I would do without it.

Jun 15, 20170

frank baroneBacker

Great news. So happy for your research team. Keep us posted on your progress.

Jun 15, 20170

Duncan MacMartinBacker

Awesome news!! Looking forward to seeing the results.

Jun 15, 20170

Mark GregoryBacker

Brilliant news, so many are pinning their hopes on this research. Thank you for what you're doing.

Jun 15, 20170

A. StockerBacker

Thank <<>> for all you are doing! And thank you to the new donor, too!

Jun 15, 20170

Din-i WangBacker

Fantastic!

Jun 15, 20170

Wendy AndersonBacker

Great news😊

Jun 15, 20170

Maxim HurwiczBacker

Tres cool! Many thanks for your hard work and extra thanks for the donation from the mystery donor, too!

Jun 15, 20170

Ben EenhoornBacker

Congratulations. We all are looking forward to the results of the study. It shall be most interesting!

Jun 14, 20170

Dawn WaldronBacker

In a world that has been dominated with bad news just recently, that's great to hear!

Jun 14, 20171

Shauna WilsonBacker

Super.

Jun 14, 20170

Yvonne NielsonBacker

Congratulations! Fantastic :)

Jun 14, 20170

Cassiel KelnerBacker

That is so fantastic! Congratulations! Keep on doing amazing things! And a big heartfelt thank you to the donor as well. <3

Jun 14, 20170

Timothy ZeboBacker

Congratulations!!!!!

Jun 14, 20170

Jennifer c segerBacker

Great news! Keep fighting the good fight!

Jun 14, 20170

Heather WoodBacker

I am so glad to hear this, and so glad that a generous donor found you. Many of us following know the effects of ketogenic diet in our own lives, and are convinced that there is great therapeutic potential here, but are not in a position to hand out really interesting sums of money 😉. Glad somebody wants to put their money in a really good place.

Jun 14, 20171

Janet FreedmanBacker

I'm so pleased! Thank you for letting us know.

Jun 14, 20170

Marian Layton RyanBacker

That is wonderful! Congratulations and many thanks to the donor!

Jun 14, 20170

About This Project

Part 2: Can low carbohydrate ketogenic diets inhibit cancers?

Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center/Downstate Medical Center

We've identified that ketone bodies, i.e. fuels in the bloodstream that result from a very low carbohydrate diet, metabolically inhibit growth of 7 cancer cell lines in cell culture, but not 3 normal cell types. Future cancer treatments using diet could become more effective and less toxic. We recently posted this project on Experiment requesting funds for supplies. We need salary for our superb technologist, as the NIH has not funded us, as they are committed to drug therapies.