Tag Archives: Ketogenic diet for cancer
Adventures in Radiation and Chemo Therapy
Ever wondered what happens in the radio therapy room? Are you looking at radiation and chemotherapy for a brain tumour? Here’s a terrific video taken by my husband of me getting set up for a treatment, featuring a couple of the terrific radiation technicians I see every day. Excellent people, doing excellent difficult work, making […]
Testing the Bunk – Credibility Checking Online
This is the number one question I get, right after “why are you so skinny if you eat 85% of your calories from fat?” (that answer is a different post altogether). The question is – “how do you know if something you read online is credible?” This is not a trivial problem, particularly if the advice […]
Practical 12-Gram Keto Meal Plans for Cancer: A Book Review
Over the two years I’ve spent on a ketogenic diet in an effort to prevent progression in a grade two brain tumour, the top thing that has frustrated me is finding information and recipes specific to cancer management. We are fortunate that there is a great deal of information available focused on the ketogenic diet, […]
Does working to improve your health make you judgemental?
I’m pretty proud of myself for changing my whole diet, and sticking to it. I’ve never been someone who really struggled with weight, so to be honest, I didn’t know if I could do it. So I feel good about that, closing in on two years eating for “therapeutic ketosis”. Sidebar – I recently listened to […]
Ketogenic Diet and Cancer – Coconut Oil or Snake Oil?
I was very pleased recently to receive an invitation from Martina Slajerova, author and developer of one of my favourite resources, the KetoDietApp.com, to write a guest post for her blog. This is a cross-post, a reproduction of the post I wrote for her blog. You can see the post on Martina’s blog here. […]
Starving Cancer: Interview with Dr. D and G/K Ratio Madness
Yesterday I was pleased to hang my “IN WEBINAR” sign on my office door, and tune into a live interview with Dr. Dominic D’Agostino hosted by UK fitness site Smash the Fat. If you’ve done much reading at all on using the ketogenic diet (KD) to treat or prevent various diseases, you’ll have undoubtedly come across […]
Fight Cancer with a Ketogenic Diet: Book Review
I have been on a bit of a “blog-iday”, taking a break from all things cancer while I focus on other pursuits and await the results of my early April MRI. I am pleased to be able to report that I received a “stable” result, which means no change in the tumour. That’s two full […]
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