Banting Diet: What You Need to Know
What is the Banting Diet?
A low carbohydrate-high fat (LCHF) dietary pattern is especially important for patients with cancer. As already discussed, a low carbohydrate ketogenic diet is essential to control blood glucose levels. Furthermore, a real food diet high in both soluble and insoluble fiber and fermented foods is critical to normalize the microbiome. Alterations in the microbiome play an important role in both tumorigenesis and tumor propagation. Altered gut microbiota is associated with resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs while restoration of a normal microbiome improves the response to the anticancer drugs. (293-296) Antibiotics cause severe dysbiosis; this is associated with an increased risk of cancer and reduced response to chemotherapy. (297, 298)
The Banting diet consists mainly of animal protein (including poultry, eggs, and fish), saturated animal fats (including lard, duck fat, and butter), coconut oil, olive oil, and macadamia oil, some cheeses and dairy products, some nuts and seeds, fresh vegetables grown mainly above the ground and a few berries. (300) The Banting diet excludes all processed “food”, pre-packed, boxed, and “food” in wrappers as well as “fast food”. It excludes all foods with sugar, fructose, and maltose as well as grain products (wheat, barley, oats, rye) and soy products. (300) Soy products are genetically modified, toxic non-foods. (300) Replace all seed oils (canola, sunflower, safflower, cottonseed, soy) with healthy saturated fats; extra virgin olive oil and virgin coconut oil are freely encouraged. High-fat dairy products are suggested and not skimmed or fat-free dairy.
MANAGEMENT OF CANCER CACHEXIA
According to the FLCCC's Guide:
We suggest three nutrient-dense meals a day (following the Banting Diet). Intermittent fasting/time-restricted feeding should be avoided (except during chemotherapy); however, patients should avoid snacking between meals and should avoid eating within 3-4 hours before going to sleep (to promote autophagy while sleeping)...
In addition, we suggest a complete nutritional “shake” containing superfoods such as plant protein, super green, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins, adaptogenic herbs, probiotics, fiber, mushrooms, and berries (e.g., Ka’Chava ™ https://www.kachava.com and 310 Shakes™ https://310nutrition.com). These “superfood shakes” are preferred over regular protein shakes. Tube feeding should be avoided as this may negatively impact quality of life. Pharmacological therapies for cachexia have limited efficacy and are difficult to improve the severely reduced muscle mass in patients with cachexia.
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