I’m an open source hacker, and for the last few years I’ve been
researching cancer in my “copious spare time”. Two years ago I learned
that a fellow Python programmer of my acquaintance had inoperable
astrocytoma and was doomed to die. I told him about the cancer
treatment that I had been reading about, which is a diet called
“ketogenic diet”. In practice, what that meant was eating nothing but
meat. This was a big step for this guy, since he had been a vegetarian
for a long time. Anyway, he tried it, and he encountered a rare and
wonderful remission of the disease. He’s still alive and kicking
today, and last time I asked him he said he had no symptoms.
Now, in the paragraph above, I avoided stating that the intervention
was what *caused* the remission, because we can’t tell that from just
one case. It could have been luck. Also, even if the ketogenic diet
did save that guy’s life, the same intervention might not save yours.
But, there is some plausible physiological reasons to think that a
keto diet might help against cancer, and there are some mouse studies,
and a couple of “case studies” published in the medical literature in
which a couple of other people experienced a miraculous remission from
brain cancer soon after starting the ketogenic diet. So, there might
be something to it!
Now, one of the researchers who is leading the investigation into this
happens to be Italian. Let me see his name…
Here’s his contact info, which I copied from a paper named “Metabolic
management of glioblastoma multiforme using standard therapy together
with a restricted ketogenic diet: Case Report”:
Correspondence: giulio.zuccoli@gmail.com, Radiology
Department, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio E. 42100, Italy
I’ve exchanged email with Dr. Zuccoli, I think… Let’s see, no he
never wrote back, but two of his co-authors did. Anyway, I could try
contacting him, or his co-authors (notable Dr. Thomas Seyfried) if you
think it would help.
Regards,
