sugar feeds cancer...fact or fiction

I am a 10yr. surviver and was told by my Doc. to stop eating sugar. I cut back. I had a recurrence 3yrs. ago and am now in remission. My advise is to cut way back but most importantly eat very healthy. Lots of fruits and vegy's stay away from all processed foods. Read labels on everything. High fructose corn syrup and other processed sugars I totally avoid. Go natural, raw sugar, real maple syrup instead. I don't do artificial  sweeteners. No Alcohol at all. We have enough dead brain cells .

All my best, Chris 

Liz, My sister has liver cancer.Till now we didn't know about sugar.How do you get an alkaline metabalizism?What kind of diet do you think can reverse this or keep the tumors from growing beside sugar?

Ramses

your right about one thing our bodys need glucose, but we dont need  huge amount of glucose, wich we get from  eating raw sugar, when our body get this  grate rush of  glucose, it changes the balance of the ph in our bodys, then our body has to go though a lot of chemical change to fix it.  I know with my prostrate cancer when I have any raw simple sugars, even in a cup of coffee, or a can of soda, with in a few hours I get urine retenion, and I find it dificalt to pee, This will go on for a few days then seltel down again, this I feel is because the cancer cell expand to get more glucose in, this is why I say, if you got cancer, eating any raw sugar, a bad idea, You dont need it, as we get enough glucose, from the normil food, we eat, and drink. with out sugar. cheers Ray   

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I have a close relative with cancer. I have celiac disease and have been studying the metabolic pathway diligently for almost two years. I’m not an expert, but I know what I know.

So far, one medical professional has claimed that sugar can’t cause cancer, because the body produces sugar even if we don’t eat it. And two people said they got cancer, or a recurrence of cancer after abstaining from refined sugar in favor of fruit ......abstaining from sucrose in favor of fructose.

Refined sugar is half fructose.

Starving people can feed on their own fat for a couple weeks to a couple months before death. If humans required ingested sugar, people would starve to death within a few hours of their last meals. This does not happen.

Blood glucose is required by a few brain cells because they are too thin to contain mitochondria. The majority of brain cells do not need sugar. Humans do not need to eat sugar to live. And yes, our liver have mitochondria which manufacture glucose out of protein and fat. It’s called gluconeogenesis. The purpose is to feed the few brain cells which need it.

Cells use mitochondria to metabolize sugar into energy.

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The body has three main methods of making energy from sugar:

* ATP/CP System

* Anaerobic Lactic Acid System

* Aerobic system.

So far people have ascribed body acid from sugar through the lactic acid system. All three energy systems produce acids and destroy tissue.

In all three systems mitochondria use sugar, produce acid, and destroy tissue. The end product of all three systems is adenosine triphosphate (ATP), known as the cell’s energy currency. Cells are capable of consuming fat directly or via "ketone bodies" .......a fancy term for lightweight hydrocarbons. The liver can convert fat into ketone bodies. Any unused ketone bodies get expelled in the urine, and by the lungs.

As I mentioned above, the liver can convert fat and protein into glucose. The glucose could be consumed by all cells, except for a couple of facts. 1) The brain uses chemicals to claim first dibs on this glucose, and 2) the liver uses chemicals to limit glucose production to the amount needed by the brain.

An important factor has been neglected here. Sugar molecules are sugar because they have lots of hydroxyl (OH) ions. When cell mitochondria process sugar, as a byproduct, they create hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Cellular vehicles feed needed chemicals to mitochondria. When these vehicles break, mitochondria produce more and more H2O2. H2O2 is a bleach. Compared to water (H2O), hydrogen has an extra oxygen radical (O) which it tries to get rid of. Radical oxygen creates localized acidic conditions throughout the body. Radical oxygen attempts to attach to cells everywhere, essentially burning them.

In contrast, when the liver makes glucose from protein and fat, it reverses the normal cellular metabolic process. Unlike in sugar-using metabolism, sugar-creating metabolism creates hydrogen (H) ions as a byproduct. The hydrogen ions flow through the body absorbing free oxygen radicals. It absorbs the radicals from hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and from the tissue burned by the hydrogen peroxide.

So when a detractor argues against the Warburg effect by claiming the liver manufactures glucose anyway, it’s just bogus. Sugary glucose, whether digested or manufactured represents disease, but manufactured glucose comes with its own cure .......its own neutralizing agent.

Now add that cells burn fat, average about six times as efficiently as sugar. The ATP system is three times as efficient, and the other two systems are between six and twenty times as efficient.

Sugar is good for cancer, and bad for humans. Cancer requires sugar. Humans do not.