Dr. Jen and others share how a modified ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting helped manage chemotherapy side effects and weight gain. A preclinical study showed mice on keto lived twice as long as those on a standard diet. The speaker's oncologist noticed the results, adopted keto himself, and now recommends it to patients.
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It's so cool. You've actually done so many of the things that are in the lifestyle that I've been evangelizing for a long time. Where did you get all this information?
I mean, online. And my friends and I, we have an amazing friend group and we're constantly sharing different articles and different research that we find in different health magazines, and we're always on the lookout for that. And even someone who I work with, Dr. Jen, who I love, she is not only is she an MD and an OB gyn, but she's also has her nutrition degree from Columbia. And so she and I are always sending things back and forth too. So she. She's also intermittent fasting and she's modified keto. But she just told me about these amazing palm Mary. These angel hair pasta. That's hearts of palm, like, so we're always. And all of us are trading different secrets and things that we found. And, you know, it's. It's been really an awesome group of women who have just been sharing information and then doing some of the research and following up with new articles. It's been awesome.
This is something that's really new because I kind of thought you might say, oh, I hired this amazing doctor who put me on this special diet. But there's enough information from enough credible people that if you sit down with a couple friends, you can source it yourself and decide what to do. But you're. I mean, you've got your oils right, you've got your sugars right, you've got your if. And like, you're doing all this stuff, which is really impressive. I was gonna say, who's the secret doctor behind you? But I love this. So you're an example of how anyone without a giant doctor's bill can figure out what you figured out.
It's so true. I mean, it's just we have so much information. Obviously you need to know how to vet information and know what's real and what's not. And that's, you know, that's a little bit of a slippery slope just when it comes to the web. But I have been, obviously, you know what some certain sources that are trusted in this world. The New York Times, you know, you've got, you know, certain magazines. Men's Health actually was the first one, interestingly, that sparked my interest, and that was the study on metastatic mice and ketosis. They had a set of metastatic mice. Half of them were put on the SAD diet, the standard American diet, and the other half were put on keto. The keto mice lived twice as long. And I just. I remember reading that and I started sobbing because it just. I just thought, why wouldn't I do that? Why wouldn't I do that? And there's just been a recent article that Dr. Jen sent me about combining chemo with keto in lessening the effects. I mean, oh, my gosh, when I was on chemo, I gained 10 pounds because all I did was eat carbs because I was so sick and so nauseated and so. And I felt so sorry for myself and I just wanted to eat pizza and pasta, and that's all I did. And I gained weight. And when I was finished with keto, I had to chemo. I had to lose we, which is not what people necessarily think of when they think of chemo. And I couldn't believe that I had gained weight on chemo, but it happened because all I did was eat carbs. And then when I started changing my life, my oncologist was. She was one of the first people who said, what are you doing? And I told her about keto, and she was surprised, started doing research, started doing it herself. She and her husband started doing it, and now she tells her patients about it. So how about that?
