tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post9142253990725539686..comments2024-02-20T16:22:10.042-05:00Comments on Tuit Nutrition: Metabolic Theory of Cancer: Speculation on the Causes of Cancer (Pt.1)Amy B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08471580967464668110noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-82001238047893274782016-12-13T13:33:53.110-05:002016-12-13T13:33:53.110-05:00Thank you, Keiron! What a lovely comment. :) I&...Thank you, Keiron! What a lovely comment. :) I've considered putting these posts together into an e-book, but I'll have to see about securing some of the permissions to use various graphics & images from different studies. I agree, though -- it would be nice to have it all together in once place. And I would have to emphasize that this is really just one theory, and, as usual, there is much more that remains unknown. But it certainly all seems compelling to *me.* (And thanks very much for the donation! Very much appreciated, as this blog is a labor of love and I do it in my spare time.) :)Tuit Nutritionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708859914305178756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-33781882672548029042016-12-13T09:10:29.457-05:002016-12-13T09:10:29.457-05:00Amy,
This has been an amazing series, really incr...Amy,<br /><br />This has been an amazing series, really incredible. You have made an extremely complex subject available to anyone, that really is something you should be proud of. It's so good, you should offer this complete series as an ebook complete with all your excellent illustrations. It really does have it's place out there. I'm nearly complete on Christofferson's book and to be honest I had to kind of skip over some technical jargon above my head. Looking for those explanations and answers was how I found your site, your articles. I for one would buy it, please consider it and please keep writing, I made a small donation a couple of days ago to encourage you to do so!! I hope others too will support your tremendous efforts.<br /><br />Keiron, UK.Keironnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-70295536869845812082015-04-30T19:52:56.069-04:002015-04-30T19:52:56.069-04:00I did see your book! It's on my list of thing...I did see your book! It's on my list of things to buy. :)<br /><br />I know what you mean about being careful. But, IMO, I think you are on to something... <br /><br />-Nikki Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-60521514575670874592015-04-30T10:20:11.369-04:002015-04-30T10:20:11.369-04:00:) Thanks! Glad you found me. I'm guessing yo...:) Thanks! Glad you found me. I'm guessing you've already discovered that I wrote a book about Alzheimer's, but just in case: http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2015/04/alzheimers-antidote.html<br /><br />As for the cancer series, I have to be very careful and say that anything I write about *possible* and *potential* causes/prevention methods are just that: possibilities, based solely on my opinion, but an opinion that is rooted in biochemistry & physiology. It's so dodgy sometimes...never, ever want to imply that I know how to prevent cancer. Just my best guesses, unfortunately. (But then again, that's all *anyone* has at this point, including doctors, right?)Tuit Nutritionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708859914305178756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-57043332960223016482015-04-30T10:05:54.267-04:002015-04-30T10:05:54.267-04:00Hi, Amy! I stumbled across your blog and WOW!!! ...Hi, Amy! I stumbled across your blog and WOW!!! This cancer series is seriously knocking my socks off. So much great information.<br /><br />Thank you so so so much for taking the time to document all of this amazing information. As a person with quite a bit of family history of cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's, this information is absolutely fascinating to me. I'm also very much looking forward to the next couple of posts where you discuss some tactics that people can use as possible preventions.<br /><br />Great work!! :)<br /><br />-NikkiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-87325760178393137022015-04-10T12:54:32.440-04:002015-04-10T12:54:32.440-04:00Thanks/obrigado. :) It's good to know people...Thanks/obrigado. :) It's good to know people are learning from the cancer posts. I am, too! (I didn't know most of this until I started reading all those papers.) It's fascinating, and I don't know why this information isn't trickling down to the offices of family doctors & oncologists. Most cancer treatment wards are still shoving Ensure shakes down people's throats. (Nothing but sugar, corn syrup, and n-6 loaded oils.)Tuit Nutritionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708859914305178756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-26599251247402234702015-04-10T10:04:24.295-04:002015-04-10T10:04:24.295-04:00Hey, Amy! I think you have another big fan on Braz...Hey, Amy! I think you have another big fan on Brazil!<br /><br />First I would like to thank you for the effort to put this series together and provide us this kind of mindblowing information! Very interesting series so far! I've already been in touch with some of Dominic D'Agostino and Thomas Seyfried work as well as some videos and posts from Peter Attia and Robb Wolf, but the way that you're putting all of this information together is fascinating and I can say that I'am learning a lot from your posts and the research papers that you provide in them. Can't wait for the next ! <br /><br />Keep up the great work! <br />ps: loved the idea of an e-book on this!<br />Caio Lunanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-14766725037764527762015-03-29T14:25:42.449-04:002015-03-29T14:25:42.449-04:00Thanks, Ian! Welcome aboard. Ellen is great. She&#...Thanks, Ian! Welcome aboard. Ellen is great. She's helping me with the layout for an e-book I'm working on now, in exchange for me having helped edit & proofread her 2 e-books. Her Ketogenic Diet Resource site is amazing.Tuit Nutritionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708859914305178756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-9821383732279811432015-03-29T01:00:40.845-04:002015-03-29T01:00:40.845-04:00Hi there Amy
I found your blog from the book by E...Hi there Amy<br /><br />I found your blog from the book by Ellen David and Keith Runyan on T2D and Ketogenic Diets. Just wanted to say what a wonderful blog you have, so full of interetsing and detailed science. Thanks so much.<br /><br />Ian AIan Anoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-39275843304236331952015-03-25T10:45:18.120-04:002015-03-25T10:45:18.120-04:00Thanks, J. I agree - no, we are absolutely NOT sup...Thanks, J. I agree - no, we are absolutely NOT supposed to resign ourselves to what might or might not be our genetic heritage. That's the whole point of the next couple posts -- that sure, we all have "genetic baggage" and predispositions. But that doesn't mean we're completely helpless regarding our health. We might not be able to all-out prevent every type of cancer (I certainly don't think we can), but we can sort of prime our bodies as best we can to be healthy and robust. Mitochondrial health & flexibility is near the top of the list of steps that would include, and I plan to cover ways to maintain/improve those in the next few posts.<br /><br />You're right on another point, too: there sure do seem to be more people's numbers coming up for cancer than there used to be. And it can't strictly be a factor of increased life span, and how more people died from infectious disease in the past, because like I said, plenty of young people get cancer. It's not just because people are living longer. Something's going on in our diet, our lifestyle, and our physical environment, and the storm that's brewing is affecting *all* of us. :-/Tuit Nutritionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708859914305178756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-76755627564268295742015-03-24T22:58:56.401-04:002015-03-24T22:58:56.401-04:00Sometimes it seems hereditary, sometimes not, and ...Sometimes it seems hereditary, sometimes not, and sometimes its just the luck of the lottery draw, but more people seem to be coming up "winners" in the lottery than before with cancer. More bad luck or more environmental and bad personal choices, or is it the genes? I had one grandfather who lived to near 90, smoking two packs of Rothmans a day, eating eggs for breakfast (of course that's okay now), drank his rum (not necessarily in moderation), and died from "old age" in his bed (fortunately not smoking). However, my mother developed breast cancer, at about the same age that her mother developed cancer (and survived), showing the link of it being in the genes/family history. So what is one to do just give up? I like Mark Sissons' writing on the aspect that just because we may have a disposition in our genes to an illness, we may stave off activating the diseases by making better choices on how to live. If I follow this advice, I feel good, and when I don't I do not feel well. That's on an easily observed scale of the effect of one's life-style choices on one's health, so what do these choices affect on the smaller non-observable scale? <br /><br />Keep on writing and contributing to the discussion and speculating.<br /><br />J.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-46449660860912301022015-03-24T21:47:57.741-04:002015-03-24T21:47:57.741-04:00Ola, Paulo, my biggest )and maybe only) fan in Bra...Ola, Paulo, my biggest )and maybe only) fan in Brazil! I agree -- we can control our mitochondrial destiny to a large degree. Not *entirely,* but to a large degree. (Don't forget the little kids that get cancer. A lot of that seems unexplained.) But the bell curve analogy is a good one -- "most" factors can be controlled for, and "most" of the mitochondrial factors will fall in the middle (largest part of the distribution), but there will be outliers. Maybe there are a couple of factors that only cause a very small number of cases of cancer. And there will always be outliers with cancer patients, too -- the old man who smoked all his life, drank heavily, partied hard, and died happily in his sleep at a ripe old age. Or the person who does "all the right things" and still somehow gets cancer. These are the things I'll be addressing in the next few posts.Tuit Nutritionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708859914305178756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-58700114814798247502015-03-24T21:42:26.325-04:002015-03-24T21:42:26.325-04:00Thanks, Alice! This is one of the best comments I&...Thanks, Alice! This is one of the best comments I've had on the blog. Maybe someday I will put all these posts together as an e-book. If I do, you'll get credit for sparking the idea. ;-)Tuit Nutritionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708859914305178756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-74425206896553158972015-03-24T16:20:50.342-04:002015-03-24T16:20:50.342-04:00Sounds like the causes of mitochondrial dysfuntion...Sounds like the causes of mitochondrial dysfuntion (i.e. cancer), as many other things in nature, fall under the 'statistical control laws' of a normal distribution. MOST of mitdys is caused by this variable, a bit less by that one, and so on.<br /><br />IMEHO (e = extremely), sheer (bad) luck as a cause of mitdys is certainly possible, but improbable; should reside at the tail end of the statistics.<br /> <br />As Bill Clinton would say, in his Arkansas campaign office: it's the sugar in the blood, stupid.Paulo A Frankenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-14394241462163719842015-03-23T14:16:48.386-04:002015-03-23T14:16:48.386-04:00Welcome back Cancer as a Metabolic Disease! We ha...Welcome back Cancer as a Metabolic Disease! We have been waiting for you. This series is an important and prophetic view into the future of cancer treatment. Keep the series together, Amy, and provide them as an e-book (or whatever). It is important for the general public to learn a new way of looking at this most feared disease so that people will be better able to cope if (or when) someday cancer touches their lives.<br /><br />We humans have a tendency to wonder about what we did wrong when some disaster befalls us. Such thoughts benefit no one, especially the victim, so it is best to get them out in the open and out of the way, as today’s episode is doing. Very important!<br /><br />One comfort about cancer is the human body’s amazing monitoring system that constantly searches for and find cells that in some way have become defective and forgotten who they are. The monitors are followed by repair mechanisms that set the renegades straight or, in event they cannot, kill them or make them commit suicide (apoptosis). A defective cell that evades all attempts by the body to protect against it has the potential to become a cancer.<br /><br />Readers: Go back to the last episode “Cancer as a Protective Mechanism.” It explains beautifully the fact that a cancer cell is not a host cell anymore but rather a single cell guy who wants only to keep himself alive and growing at any cost. His drive is to protect his own identity. This new look at cancer as a metabolic disease opens new opportunities for more productive research. (Readers: Save all episodes of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease until an e-book appears. You will not regret it.) A&F<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com