Keto for Cancer: Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy as a Targeted Nutritional Strategy Paperback – Illustrated, September 27, 2017

Edit: Changing my 2 star rating to 5. I exchanged the misprinted book for a new one through Amazon and it contains all of the chapters and resources! Thankful to have all of this quality information.This review is not intended to reflect on the content of the book. The information I’ve reviewed is incredibly helpful. Unfortunately , the book I received is missing chapters/sections, with duplicate chapters in their place. Specifically , missing Appendix B : Recipes, Resources (which is referred to frequently throughout the book with lists of necessary websites and books), Glossary, Notes, and Index. Seems to be a bad edition/printing and Amazon is selling at full price. Working on an exchange, but I’m guessing the next book may very well be from the same printing. Check your book when you receive it!

Wonderful book on how to implement metabolic methodology nutrition to starve cancerous cells. Specifically, how to implement the nutritional "Press" portion of the "Press-Pulse" metabolic methodology. This 2017 book seems to be the latest edition. Wondering about the author, if she maintains an accessible update document with any meaningful modifications to this original book?

This is a great book, and will be vital for many people as more and more realize dietary adjustments will complement and improve (if not replace) other interventions to treat cancer. The author details in fair depth "the metabolic approach to cancer" that was initiated by Otto Warburg nearly a century ago and has been revitalized by Thomas Seyfried.Put simply, modern humans are filling their tanks both with too much fuel and with different fuels at the wrong proportions (per evolutionary tuning). Our engines are strained, and this excessive and imbalanced intake can feed cancers. We can try to limit that by 1) restricting calories and 2) restricting carbs and proteins (that fuel cancer). That means a diet based on healthy fats, which can fuel normal cells but do not fuel the explosive growth of cancer tumors. The book goes into great detail about how to pursue this anti-cancer diet.A few thoughts on what I might like to see in the next edition:1) A little more discussion on fasting, especially of duration longer than 2-3 days. All "extended fasting" is dismissed with a sentence, but there must be some room to talk about potential benefits (and harms) of fasting for periods longer than 3 days but shorter than, say, 30 days.Similarly, there is a great appendix of resources that are listed under various headings but there is no heading for "fasting." If the coverage of therapeutic fasting isn't expanded in the actual text of the book, it would at least be helpful to give a comprehensive list of the best current resources on science-based fasting. A comprehensive approach to metabolic healing should thoroughly investigate and discuss potential benefits of NOT eating as well as of ketogenic eating.2) A little more clarity in the discussion on glutamine in foods. We know it is in animal protein (and obviously in glutamine supplements), but it is an amino acid that is in all kinds of things. If it plays a major role in feeding cancer, don't we want to try to limit it more greatly? I remain confused about the fact that keto staples like nuts and cruciferous vegetables ALSO have lots of glutamine. Do we try to restrict dietary glutamine, or not? If so, how?It would seem that rather than just a low protein ketogenic diet, what we really want would be a low glutamine ketogenic diet. Am I missing something?But other than that, 98 out of 100 still equals an A+ for this book!

In my studies of the horrific disease of cancer since 2008 when my father was diagnosed with esophagal cancer and six months later my step-mother with breast cancer, I began my journey on the study of cancer and its causes. Is it hereditary, from a virus, parasites, bad diet, stress, etc.? This book as well as the findings of Dr. Thomas Seyfried (whom you'll find on youtube) convincingly shows without a doubt that it is none of those, but a metabolic disease. Now it all makes sense. Even Gerson, who has had success with cancer patients used a plant based approach which is no doubt a low glutamine diet. Those whose cancer is caused by glutamines can irradicate keep at bay their cancer from avoiding meat which is high in glutamines. But then those whose cancer is glucose based can irradicate their cancer through keto, very low glucose. How do you know which one to do? Miriam Kalamian points you to a low protein (much lower protein than most keto diets) with some vegetables, a combination of the two. This agrees with Dr. Seyfried's findings.This book points the way to manage or irradicate cancer. Thomas Seyfried's book: An overview of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease is also worth a read. The two books are worth its weight in gold if you are fighting cancer. Too bad most doctors are ignorant of the fact that concrete scientific studies prove that cancer is truly a metabolic disease.

This book is a masterpiece by an author who earned a degree in human nutrition and who researched Professor Thomas Seyfried’s ketogenic metabolic therapy to extend the life of her son, a brain tumor patient. While this book is useful for many cancer patients, it must be supplemented by prostate cancer patients. In other cancers, the cancer cells become energy-inefficient (Warburg effect). With prostate cancer cells, they start as energy-efficient. Prostate cancer cells lose the ability to accumulate zinc and have elevated needs for amino acids (such as leucine) and for choline. These and other differences in metabolism mean that prostate cancer patients must change their diets and supplements. This requires research beyond this book.

Very informative read....