Reply To: Cancer again – Is this the End, or just the beginning?

[Zack-Vegas]

From Ray Peat’s article on Caner: Disorder and Energy-

“The alkaline cancer cell surrounds itself by the acid that it emits, and this extracellular
acidity increases the ability of fatty acids to enter the cell (Spector, 1969); cancer cells,
although they are synthesizing fat, also avidly take it up from their environment
(Sueyoshi and Nagao, 1962b). This fat avidity is so extreme that cancer cells in vitro will
eat enough polyunsaturated fat to kill themselves. This has been offered as proof that
fish oil kills cancer. Saturated fats, however, have a calming effect on cancer cells,
inhibiting their aerobic glycolysis (Marchut, et al., 1986) while permitting them to resume
the respiratory production of energy.”

I think coconut oil is particularly good for supporting energy metabolism.  Not just due to the high saturation level, but also the shorter chain length.  Eating coconut oil should also have a beneficial effect on the gut, since it’s antibacterial, which should, over time, lower endotoxin and serotonin production.   Some fat is also good in the diet, to help with digestion and gallbladder function.  20-30 grams could be very useful for this.  It doesn’t have to be every day (I did a very low fat diet for a couple months, where most days I was under 10 grams, but did go up to 20-30 at least once a week, for this purpose).