While most cancers can fuel themselves on glucose, fatty acids, ketones and amino acids, their preferred energy source is glucose (due to the Warburg effect). Calculate your IOE AntiCancer Glucose Score. Use this app to learn how changes in ... [Read More]
Controlling Blood Sugar and Reversing Insulin Resistance
Having high-blood sugar levels and insulin resistance is a bad combination. They increase systemic inflammation, DNA-damaging free radical levels and cellular aging, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, obesity and risks of heart disease, diabetes (no ... [Read More]
One of My Favorite Integrative Oncology Lab Tests
Did you know that insulin is a cancer growth factor (a protein that stimulates cancer cells to grow)? Background: Most of the cells in our body use glucose (blood sugar) as their primary source of energy...and cancer cells are no exception. They ... [Read More]
Just say “No” To Artificial Sweeteners (and “Only a Little” to natural ones…)
There is no such thing as a healthy sweetener -- only more, or less, unhealthy ones. This conclusion became abundantly clear to me as I read a study published this week in the medical journal Diabetes Care. It found that a popular non-nutritive ... [Read More]
It’s Not Just About Calories
A reader wrote in to say that the Queen of Sheba birthday cake I posted recently sounded delicious but was so calorie-laden she would avoid it. She is right, of course: this cake is high in calories – like most chocolate cakes. However, ... [Read More]
Pears: Underrated Nutritional Superstars
This fall, instead of gravitating towards apples (I know -- they're so much easier to love: ripening more predictably in our fruit bowls, traveling better without bruising, simultaneously offering tart crunch and creamy flesh, and coming in a wide ... [Read More]
Anti-Cancer Nutrition: Sugar and Carbohydrates 101
Carbohydrates help to fuel the proper functioning of our bodies, and especially the brain. However, some types of carbohydrate are valuable health promoters while others may undermine our health. Healthy carbohydrates are found in fresh vegetables ... [Read More]
Amazing anti-cancer compound derived from the French Lilac: Galega officianalis (metformin)
Metformin is a medication derived from the herb Galega officinalis (French lilac, also known as Goat's Rue or Italian Fitch) and has been used as a traditional botanical (tea infusion) for over 3,000 years to relieve polyuria (frequent urination) and ... [Read More]