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Originally Posted by lewdog
What would be your goal with an extended fast like that?
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Quite a bit of research coming out saying that it kills off pre-cancer cells.
Cancerous cells don't feed off ketones well at all, evidently. As we know, glucose powers the shit out of cancer. People are playing around with fasting and chemo a lot now as well. Evidently when in nutritional ketosis, it kicks up the body's immune system to the chemo while making the cancer "starving" so it sucks up the chemo even more.
Dom D'Agostino has done quite a bit of work on this. Here's a TED talk he did on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fM9o72ykww
Also: Dom is a huge fasting fan. He evidently pulled 500 lbs. for 10 reps at the end of a 7 day fast.