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by gwd 976 days ago
> I’m also not a doctor, but I don’t think fasting on chemo is the play.

I'm not a doctor either, but it looks like there's been some promising studies regarding combining fasting and chemotherapy:

> Preclinical studies in rodents strongly support the implementation of these dietary interventions and a small number of clinical trials begin to provide encouraging results for cancer patients and cancer survivors.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8190229/

And the "TLDR" graph and explanation:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8190229/figure/...

Basically, the claim is that fasting makes normal cells more resistant to the chemotherapy, and cancer cells more vulnerable to the chemotherapy.

Granted thats "...in mice". But it's worth trying.