Fasting and fasting-mimicking diets for chemotherapy augmentation

I . Control Diets , Methods , and Fasting Output

Fasting and differential chemotherapy protection in patients.

Chronic calorie restriction has been known for decades to prevent or retard cancer growth, but its weight-loss effect and the potential problems associated with combining it with chemotherapy have prevented its clinical application. Based on the discovery in model organisms that short term starvation (STS or fasting) causes a rapid switch of cells to a protected mode, we described a fasting-bas...

Effects of Ramadan Fasting on Apolipoproteins A and B and Atherogenic Index in Fasting and Non-Fasting Students

Purpose: Several studies have been done on the effects of fasting on human health indicating the beneficial effects of fasting on weight control, lipid metabolism, and lowering blood pressure in healthy people. The present study aimed at investigating the effects of Ramadan fasting on apolipoproteins A and B (apo A and B) and the atherogenic index of the fasting and non-fasting students. Metho...

Fasting

posed to have tlie right to exercise his discretion as regards fasting for a certain number of days, but it is no less than gross cruelty to experimentalise with dogs to ascertain how long they can live without sustenance. Such experiments, however, have been lately carried out in Paris, where Dr. Laborde laid a report before the Paris Zoological Society on the results of two cases carried on u...

Safety and Feasability of Muslim Fasting While Receiving Chemotherapy

More than 1.2 billion Muslim practice fasting from dawn to sun set through the whole month of Ramadan. Cancer patients who are on active chemotherapy therapy treatment are usually feeling impressed whether or not to keep fasting with no data to support the possible hazard or potential benefit, Here we report data about representative samples from our patients who had been followed during the fa...