Cancer, insulin and paleo diet.

All body cells are programmed to, at one point, suicide. However, for reasons that are not clear, sometimes not commit suicide and also start doing things for which they are not programmed: reproduce faster than normal (their "daughters" are not programmed to die neither) and alia equally undesirable.

Just born a cancer.

Another characteristic of these cells is that, in most cases, they only "eat" glucose.

Consider the importance of this fact. All cells in the body (except neurons and a few more) can be fed both glucose and fatty acids, ie, when the body does not have a sufficient amount of glucose directly feeding cells of fat, but no cancer cells.

And, what is the fundamental substance that allows cells feed on glucose? Yes, is insulin. That is, if there is no insulin, the cells (including cancer) can not use glucose for food.

Where is all this leading us? For when we have high insulin levels in the blood there is a direct feeding to cancer cells. They are well nourished and can reproduce as fast as desire.

When insulin levels rise? When we eat carbohydrates, ie, eating carbohydrates raise insulin and allow the cancer cells feed perfectly.

What is the alternative? As you can imagine, eating a diet low in carbohydrates to keep insulin as low as possible and that diet, how could it be otherwise, is the paleo diet.

Does that mean that if you eat paleo style you will not suffer cancer? No, the causes of cancer is not carbohydrate intake.

So, What is the advantage of the paleo diet about cancer? From the moment at which this diet maintains low glucose and insulin levels, the cancer cells have difficulty feeding and breeding while the rest of the body is well nourished, that makes the cancer less aggressive. With this feeding anticancer therapy is more likely to win the battle against the disease and the patient will gain what every cancer patient needs: time.

Sources:

The hard one:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094064/

The medium one:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11310428

The easy one:

http://www.europapress.es/salud/noticia-cientificos-catalanes-descubren-falta-glucosa-mata-celulas-cancerigenas-resistentes-quimioterapia-20100518115547.html

Let start hard: a super paleo food.

There are thousands of paleo/low-carb recipes and most of them are good food, but there is one of them which is, for me, the better of all. Let me say why this is probably one of the most important entries of this blog.

Proline is an amino acid (amino acids are the "building blocks" with which proteins are constructed) that is not essential (ie the body can produce on its own).

 

Okay, but ... What use is this amino acid? it for various things, and all of extraordinary importance:

 

• It is a basic component of collagen, which makes it a very important substance for:
  • Rejuvenate and keep skin and human tissues supple, making it a great ally of beauty.
  • Strengthen and build tendons and ligaments.
  • It is necessary for healing and cicatrization of wounds and burns.
  • Involved in the maintenance and repair of bones and muscles.

According Linus Pauling, together with lysine and vitamin C reverses the blockage of the arteries caused by the lipoprotein (a).

Glycine, for its part, is another amino acid that is also not essential. Its main functions are:

The human body detoxification. It is an element without which the liver can not detoxify. If you need to detoxify your liver, do not drink tea, take glycine.

• It is the simplest amino acid, which makes it the basis to fabricate other amino acids used in the synthesis of hemoglobin, bile salts, glutathione and DNA and RNA nucleotides.
• It is involved in gluconeogenesis (production of glucose by the body) and low levels of glycine may produce symptoms of hypoglycemia.
• Has an essential role in wound healing.
• It is essential in the growing child and the fetus, so pregnant women should take sufficient glycine.

Okay, they are very important, but if the body can create them, why are we talking about them? Because the processing capacity of these amino acids in the body is very limited and is extremely common to fall into a significant deficit of these elements, not to mention the inability of some individuals to reach the minimum. All this makes it necessary to take the necessary amount of these amino acids. How to? There are several foods that contain these amino acids, but best of all is a super food that fits perfectly in the paleo diet: gelatin, but not any gelatin or gelatin dessert that is sold in stores (that is made ​​primarily with thickeners), but with a gelatin that we will do with bones.

Furthermore, if you suffer arthritis or arthrosis, both aminoacids will improve your condition and will help you save money, because you will not use shark cartilage (and expensive and anti-ecological remedy against those diseases) anymore.

 

The paleo superfood is none other than the bone broth, food that everyone should eat at least twice a week.

I´ll write the recipe of bone broth in one or two days. If you can´t wait, visit this blog (its in spanish, but there you can translate with Google Translator):  Bone broth recipe

 

See you soon!