Scientists found that fasting based on new methods of cancer treatment

The United States before the University of Southern California scientists said they found that after 4 years, based on fasting in the treatment of cancer, may increase the dose of chemotherapy to reduce side effects, so that the effect of cancer treatment has been greatly improved. At present, this method has been adopted by animal experiments.

Italian anti-aging biotechnology experts, headed by Walter Longo's research team found the body in an 48-hour fasting, healthy cells will focus on efforts to survive with limited energy and thus more than the cancer cells resistant to the power of chemotherapy.

Walter Longo said: "Everyone in the search for the treatment of cancer of the 'magic shell', it will only damage the tumor cells, but do not attack healthy cells. However, our approach different. Why do not the eradication of cancer chemotherapy, At the same time, the remaining cells to protect them? "

To fasting as a means to resist the arms of cancer biological therapy of cancer of the major change in philosophy. Longo said that the tumor is usually the medical practitioner may recommend the use of a reasonable diet to fight cancer, but from the perspective of anti-aging, caloric restriction contribute to the preservation of cells. In this case, the cells will make use of only a small amount of energy to protect themselves rather than breeding, so their ability to produce stronger resistance.

At present, the fasting therapy in mice who had been a success. Fasting rat cells can enhance resistance to about 1000 times. Due to the complexity of the human body, cell resistance to chemotherapy the level of self-protection than mice, but scientists think that should be able to enhance by about 20 times, so that in the treatment of cancer can be a substantial increase in the number of chemotherapy and at the same time will not cause too much side effects.

It is reported that scientists in the next six months on the experiment in humans that the new anti-cancer, they believe that the fast method to have a curative effect on various types of cancer, because in theory that any cancer cells do not have the capacity to protect themselves.