Research Reveals How Sugar CAUSES Cancer
July
20, 2019
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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