Never heard that about sugar ...thanks for sharing

None really but looking to cut back , if not avoid sugar. My non-fasting glucose count is 102 as of today. While doctor not concerned, since 100 is the top of the “normal “ range , I’ll look to cut back. Also, cancerous tumors love sugar.

One of my docs, Philip Ovadia, M.D., wrote the book Stay Off My Operating Table. , I'm working with him, per his instructions, to keep my GKI (Glucose Ketone Index) as close to 1.0 as possible. He's expressly working with me to save my life from my Stage 4 melanoma with left brain and left lung tumors.

Cancer cells basically have two primary foods/fuels. They are glucose (i.e., sugar), and glutamine. We can't nutritionally control our glutamine. But, we can nutritionally control our glucose. I check my glucose and ketones every morning, and try to keep my glucose reading around 70, and my ketone reading around 4.0.

GKI = Glucose/18 (i.e., 70/18 = 3.89) and then the 3.89/4 (the ketones) = .97, which is pretty spot on to the 1.0 he's recommended to me, for battling my melanoma cancer cells via ongoing semi-starvation.

To keep my numbers where I need them to be, for intentionally and ongoingly semi-starving my cancer cells, I need my GKI close to 1, or at least, as Dr. Tom Seyfried (the medical professor at Boston College who figured this out) says, between 1.0 and 2.0.

To best keep my morning GKI numbers close to between 1 and 2, I eat only animal based foods including meats (beef and lamb), fish, eggs, healthy cheese, healthy butter, tallow, plain/healthy cream, plain/healthy yogurt, and plain/healthy cottage cheese. I make sure none of the foods have any added sugar, seed oils, or lowered animal fats.

This is my best effort to semi-starve my cancer cells. And I was told to do it by a very well informed doctor. I've been doing it precisely this way for about 6 months now, and don't intend to quit it any time soon. Specifically, I normally eat mainly beef, like a burger patty, or brisket slices, or a steak, and each bite is dipped in melted butter, or, if I'm at home, in a mixture of melted butter and melted tallow. The tallow is slightly healthier than the butter, but the butter tastes better!

Im on ipi/nivo and no red meat, alcohol or sugar as much as possible.

My best sense of that is that it's semi-starvation. It doesn't tend to instantly or totally kill them. Rather, it materially slows down and makes their growth difficult. I encourage you to study this via Dr. Tom Seyfried online videos for more specificity on the subject.