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aliasinkhorn rated 3 months ago- From the page: "Doctors who treat patients with cancer have a balancing act. They give too little chemotherapy and tumors survive, but too much can be life threatening. Now researchers have found that in a series of lab tests, not eating for 48 hours gave healthy cells an edge. University of Southern California Associate Professor of Gerontology and Biological Science Valter Longo says, "The cancer cells have this oncogene, have these mutations that keep them always on. So, they basically are unable to obey the starvation dependent order. Starvation tells [healthy cells] to go into protective mode. The cancer cells, because of their characteristics of not being able to respond to that, just continue on their normal pro-growth track." Longo notes that, "Virtually all cancer research is focused on the killing of the cancer cells," but that he wanted instead to see if there was a way to give the healthy cells an edge. Scientists know from experiments with everything from tiny worms to primates that a lack of food sends cells into a protective mode that can actually extend life. In fact, Longo says his former college advisor helped pioneer this concept of "calorie restriction." Longo describes it as "fasting, not completely, but partially for a long time.""
