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Healthy Eating
It's All About the Mitochondria
Oxidative stress damages the mitochondria. What causes oxidative stress? Problems in the intestines and seed oils. In essence, the keys to a healthy diet are a healthy gut.
Healthy Eating & General Concept
To prevent oxidative stress in the mitochondria, we need to remove all highly processed foods from the diet. This means no wheat, flour, breads, pastas, omega 6 oils such as Wesson Oil, Vegetable Oil, etc. (the hateful eight) and oil in which foods are fried (Sorry, no fried foods - including French fries!)
We also need to repopulate our gut with bacteria that have been killed off via antibiotics and poor eating habits. For this, we will make yogurts (technically fermented dairy) to repopulate the gut. You can get the details on The Program page.
For a good and bad food reference sheet, see the cheat sheet from Dr. Gundry.
Timed Eating
Get onto an intermittent fasting schedule. You should work towards an eight hour eating window or less.
A cup or two of coffee is a wonderful way to start the day (Coffee has polyphenols). The coffee needs to be black of course, no sugar or cream which would break your fast early. It is also a good time to take the Quercetin.
I find it easiest to break my fast around 1:00 PM by taking a shot of olive oil, make and eat lunch, then around 6:00 PM, take another shot of olive oil, then make and eat dinner. Usually, one meal a day will be a big meal and the other a light meal. I try to eat fat with lunch and take my vitamins at that time.
I drink at least two liters of water with Electrolytes daily.
Oxidative Stress and Cancer
Dr. Catherine Shanahan gets into good detail regarding oxidative stress, caused by seed oils (Omega 6 oils), and cancer. Here are some quotes from her book Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back.
Seed oils cause oxidative stress.
Oxidative stress damages the mitochondria.
With damaged mitochondria, cancers thrive on sugar fermentation.
Cancer cells couldn’t generate energy like normal cells. They could only do it by fermenting sugar. Sugar fermentation is an ancient method of energy production, a metabolic holdover from before mitochondria existed. Fermenting sugar allows cancer cells to survive without fully functional mitochondria. (page 187)
A defining characteristic of cancer cells is their immortality; they have an ability to reproduce seemingly without end. This, too, comes down to mitochondria, which must be functioning normally for the cell to undergo what’s called “programmed cell death.” When mitochondria inside a cell are not working right, cells can start dividing faster and faster until they form a giant, unruly mass—a cancerous tumor visible to the naked eye. (page 188)
Cancer cells have such a voracious appetite for sugar that radiologists pinpoint the location of cancerous tumors using a form of radioactive sugar, which shows up as black nodules on PET scans. (page 188)
a cancer cell’s lack of functional mitochondria would make it overly dependent on sugar fermentation, and that a diet nearly devoid of sugar might slow or stop cancer growth. (page 189)
The keto diet effectively starves just the cancer cells. It’s a beautiful, completely nontoxic way to treat cancer. (page 190)
The cancer starvation strategy has worked for every type of solid tumor cancer he’s studied so far, including the most common (and most commonly fatal) ones: colon, breast, bladder, and kidney cancers, as well as brain cancer in adults. (page 190)
Blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma also involve damaged mitochondria, but their growth is less often driven by sugar and more often by one of the other fermentable metabolites, the amino acid glutamate. (page 190)