Chemotherapy - Is Fasting a Good Combination?

People are trying to combine the fasting with the chemotherapy, and it's for a different reason. The fast thing what you're trying to do is put your own cells into a more quiescent state. So when you fast, your own body cells slow down their growth. But there, but the cancer cells don't because they're just sort of growing, growing, growing. And so then when you give the chemotherapy, your own cells are going to take less of the hammering,. More of that chemotherapy is going to go into damaging the cancer cells.

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