KetoCal Epilepsy Diet May Treat Malignant Brain Cancer
March 2, 2007 by ruth
Filed under Food & Nutrition
Imagine if you can fight brain cancer by simply adapting a certain diet. No, really, it’s not that far-fetched.
Scientists at Boston College said Tuesday that KetoCal, a commercially available, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet designed to treat epilepsy in children, significantly enhanced health and survival rates in animal studies.
“KetoCal represents a novel alternative therapy for malignant brain cancer,” said Tom Seyfried, professor of biology. “While the tumors did not vanish in the mice who received the strict KetoCal diet, they got significantly smaller and the animals lived significantly longer.”
According to its manufacturer, Nutricia North America, KetoCal is a “ Should you want further reading, the study above is published online at Nutrition and Metabolism. Or, see the feature reports from EurekAlert and UPI
how do you know how much to take if you are an adult with brain cancer? any research being done with adults? if so i would like to know
The article says “Strict KetoCal diet” so it would have to be enough KetoCal for your nutritional requirements, and only KetoCal. The whole point of KetoCal for epilepsy is to run the brain on ketones, for cancer it’s probably more of the elimination of sugar, and this is an easy way to do it.