Chemotherapy

The article reports that combining a ketogenic diet with chemotherapy may lessen chemotherapy side effects. Chemotherapy's incremental survival benefit is extremely small when weighed against its significant side effects. Chemotherapy contributes only 2.1% to five-year cancer survival rates. The article presents the 2.1% statistic as data only, not as a recommendation for or against taking chemotherapy. 40% of Medicare spending occurs in the last 30 days of a patient's life, predominantly in cases of terminal cancer. Over $200 billion is spent annually in the United States on cancer drugs, procedures, and radiation therapy. Chemotherapy does not discriminate between cancerous and healthy cells, destroying healthy organ tissue and the immune system. Chemotherapy-induced nausea can lead to reliance on comfort foods and carbohydrate-heavy meals such as pizza and pasta. The chemotherapy-related weight gain was attributed to eating mostly carbohydrates while feeling sick, nauseated, and emotionally distressed. Chemotherapy targets cellular DNA, whereas current research increasingly points to the mitochondria as the root cause of cancer. The speaker gained 10 pounds during chemotherapy.…