For cancer prevention, Dr. Berg highly recommends the healthy version of the ketogenic diet combined with intermittent fasting.
This video explains how different types of cancer utilize various fuel sources and how dietary strategies can be employed to starve cancer cells. Dr. Berg discusses the heterogeneity of cancer, its vulnerability, and its interaction with the immune system. He proposes that by understanding a cancer's preferred fuel, one can implement specific diets and fasting protocols to inhibit its growth, while also emphasizing the importance of vitamin D, sunlight, and exercise for cancer prevention and management.
Rotating the diet helps manage cancer by preventing the cancer cells from adapting to a single fuel source. By switching between different dietary strategies that target specific fuel types (like glucose, glutamine, or lipids), the cancer is continuously deprived of the resources it needs to grow and survive, keeping it in a state where it struggles to find adequate fuel. This strategy makes it more difficult for the cancer to develop resistance and adapt to a new energy source.
