Research Reveals How Sugar CAUSES Cancer
In Brief
- The Facts:This article
was written by Sayer Ji, Founder of Greenmedinfo.com where it first
originally appeared. Posted here with permission.
- Reflect On:The average American consumes their body weight annually in this cancer-causing substance, and yet hospitals freely feed it to their cancer patients, seemingly oblivious to the harm it does.
Hospitals
feed cancer patients sugar and high carbohydrate diets for a simple
reason: they are abysmally ignorant of the role of nutrition in health
and disease — hence their burgeoning growth, packed rooms, and ‘return
customers.’
Even though the science itself shows – at least since the mid-20’s with Otto Warburg’s cancer hypothesis —
that tumors prefer to utilize sugar fermentation to produce energy
rather than the much more efficient oxygen-based phosphorylation* –
hospitals have actually invited corporations like McDonald’s to move into their facilities
to ‘enhance’ their patient’s gustatory experience, presumably to
provide comfort and take the edge off of the painful surgery, radiation
and chemo treatments erroneously proffered to them as the only
reasonable ‘standard of care.’
But the times are changing, with new
research requiring these medical institutions to reform their dietary
strategies, at least if they wish to claim that their interventions are
in fact ‘evidence-based,’ as they so often claim.
Study Reveals Sugar Doesn’t Just Feed But Causes Cancer
A groundbreaking study, uncovered by one
of our volunteer researchers at Greenmedinfo, is the first of its kind
to identify sugar, not only as fuel source for an already existing
cancer, but as a primary driver in oncogenesis – i.e. the initiation of
cancerous characteristics (phenotype) within previously healthy cells.
Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation and titled, Increased sugar uptake promotes oncogenesis via EPAC/RAP1 and O-GlcNAc pathways,
researchers addressed a common perception (or misperception) in the
cancer research community regarding sugar’s relationship to cancer:
namely, “increased glycolysis [sugar based metabolism] is frequently
viewed as a consequence of oncogenic events that drive malignant cell
growth and survival.”
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Contrary to this conventional view, the
new study “provide[s] evidence that increased glycolytic activation
itself can be an oncogenic event.” That is to say, the activation of
sugar-based metabolism in a cell – driven by both the presence of
increased quantities of glucose and the increase glucose receptors on
the cell membrane surface (i.e. “overexpression of a glucose
transporter”) – drives cancer initiation.
Moreover, the study found that
“Conversely, forced reduction of glucose uptake by breast cancer cells
led to phenotypic reversion.” In other words, interfering with sugar
availability and uptake to the cell causes the cancer cell to REGRESS
towards its pre-cancer structure-function (phenotype).
What Are The Implications of This Research to the Diet?
What this new research indicates is that
sugar – of which Americans consume an astounding 160 lbs annually
(imagine: 31 five-pound bags for each of us!) – is one of the primary
causes of metabolic cell changes in the body consistent with the
initiation and promotion of cancer. And, the research indicates that
removing it from the diet, and depriving the cells of it, could REVERSE
cancer. Why is this so surprising? It’s because Americans have been lead
like lambs to the slaughter to think of “prevention” as “early
detection,” focusing not on identifying and removing the well known
nutritional and environmental causes of cancer, rather, to spend their
time, energy, and money on cause-marketing campaigns focused on “finding
a cure” — as if one didn’t already exist right in front of our noses,
or more aptly, on the end of our forks.
Hidden Sugar, Crouching Cancer
It has been estimated by the USDA that
the average American consumes 200 lbs of grain products annually. Why
is this relevant to the question of sugar in the diet? Because refined
carbohydrate products – e.g. crackers, bread, pasta, cereal – are
actually ‘hidden’ forms of sugar. In fact, puffed rice causes your blood
to become sweeter (and presumably feeds more cancer cells sugar) than
white sugar, as it is higher on the glycemic index. Adding the two
figures together – annual per capita consumption of sugar and
grain-based products – we get a jaw dropping 360 lbs of sugar (both
overt (table sugar/high fructose corn syrup) and covert (grain carbs)
annually – all of which may contribute to promoting the ideal metabolic
situation of cancer cells: aerobic glycolysis.
This is one reason why the ketogenic
diet – that is, a fat- and protein-focused diet devoid of carbohydrate,
both in simple (sugar) and complex (grain product) form – has been found
so useful in the most aggressive of cancers: including brain cancer.
Once you ‘pull the rug out’ from under the sugar/carb-craving cancer
cells, they are forced to either undergo programmed cell death
(apoptosis) or re-differentiate back into non-cancerous phenotypes.
If It’s So Bad For Us, Why Do We Eat So Much?
One of the primary reasons why we eat
sugar and carbohydrate rich diets is because they are addictive. Within
minutes of consuming sugar/carbs our body goes through a neuroendocrine
roller coaster. Your brain can not survive very long without glucose,
the fundamental energy unit of the cell, and will ‘freak out’ if
deprived of a steady stream of this ‘nutrient’ within only 2-3 minutes.
The endocrine system, on the other hand, perceives the danger of high
sugar – namely, glycation associated damage to protein and lipid
structures within the cells of our body; think: blood caramelizing,
getting sticky, and gumming up the finely tuned works – and will release
hormones such as insulin, adrenaline and cortisol, in order to try to
get the elevated sugar in the blood and tissues under control. Insulin
forces the sugar into storage within the cell, both as glycogen and as
fat, but often does its job too well, causing available glucose levels
in the brain to be depleted – setting off a vicious cycle of ’emergency
signals’ telling the body to release more cortisol and adrenaline to
increase the levels of glucose in the blood. This, of course, will
result in additional insulin production and release, causing the same
cycle to be repeated over and over again.
This seemingly endless vicious cycle is
responsible for the insatiable cravings a high carb/sugar diet generates
– not to mention the fructose-based hedonic effects generated in the brain that
modulate both opioid and dopamine receptors in the nervous system (not
unlike alcohol), and the pharmacologically active peptides in many gluten-containing grains, which also drive addictive behaviors and an almost psychotic fixation on getting carbs at each meal.
No wonder we have an epidemic of cancer
in a world where the Westernized diet prevails. Certainly, we do not
mean to indicate that a sugar/carb-rich diet is the only cause of
cancer. There are many other factors that contribute to cancer
initiation and promotion, such as:
- Chemical exposure
- Radiation exposure
- Chronic stress that suppresses the immune system
- Vaccines containing hidden retroviruses and cancer causing viruses
- Natural infection with bacteria and viruses that are cancer causing
- Lack of sleep
- Insufficient nutrients (lack of methyl donors such as B12, folate, and B6 will prevent the body from ‘turning off’ (methylating) cancer-promoting genes
Even though cancer is a complex,
multi-factorial phenomena, with variables we can not always control, one
thing we can do is control what goes into our mouth. Sugar, for
instance, does not belong there if we truly want to prevent and/or treat
cancer. And don’t forget, carbohydrates that don’t taste sweet on the
front end – bread, crackers, cereal – certainly convert to sugar in the
body within minutes post-consumption.
In a nutshell, if you are concerned
about cancer, have cancer, or would like to prevent recurrence, removing
sugar and excess carbohydrates is a must. Not only is it common sense,
but it is now validated by experimental research.
Additional Research
Note: another recent study found that Candida albicans (yeast)
also contributes to cancer initiation and promotion. C. albicans
thrives on sugar, lending additional support to the notion that sugar
(consumed excessively) may be a primary driver of the cancer epidemic in
those consuming the modern Western diet. For information on sugar
alternatives that are not synthetic toxicants like Splenda (sucralose), read my latest article on the topic: 4 Sugar Alternatives That Won’t Poison You.
*Note: Cancer cells prefer to ferment sugar as a form of energy even when there is sufficient oxygen available to the cells to do so; hence Warburg’s description of cancer metabolism as ‘aerobic glycolysis’ or the so-called ‘Warburg effect’
Originally published: 2017-12-04
Article udpated: 2019-07-19
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