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I'd like to get your thoughts on Dr. Cowan's view on cancer and how to heal it.
I recently listened to a Podcast interview of Dr. Tom Cowan with one of the Weston A Price People.
Some of you might be familiar with him.
A significant part of his view on health and disease is based on work of Gilbert Ling, who Peat had referred to a lot, i.e. the presence of structured water (gel-like environment) in the cells .
Let me summarize his main points
- Water in cells exists in gel like form due to the unfolded state of certain protein and the charge differential in and out of the cells.
- Cells are kept at an ideal distance from one another by virtue of the existing of similar negative charges with in the cytoplasm
- These charges are largely the result of the distribution of potassium and sodium (more potassium inside and more sodium outside the cells).
- He sees cancer as a mass of cells that in a way clump together to form a hardened mass because they lost their gel-like (structured water) properties, due to loss of potassium inside the cells, and energy deficiency state due to upregulated glycolysis (the latter is common to the bioenergy community view, but there was no mention of excessive cell division of undifferentiated cells)
- two key tenants in his approach to cure:
1. High potassium / low sodium diet
2. A ketogenic diet to bypass glycolysis and to drive full fatty acid oxidation in order to produce more ATP.
He explained that ATP's purpose was not to store energy, but rather facilitate the unfolding of protein in order to produce the structured water environment.
I guess I was completely surprised by his advocacy for keto and lack of regard for the possibility that it is possible to support the shift from being stuck in the the glycolysis metabolism to being being able to fully oxidize glucose.
Was also surprised by no bring up the possibility that the ketogenic state is stressful and can do more harm.
It was interesting to me that both him and Ray were highly influenced by Ling, and yet, there dietary approach to treating cancer is quite different, even in terms of sodium intake.
I recently listened to a Podcast interview of Dr. Tom Cowan with one of the Weston A Price People.
Some of you might be familiar with him.
A significant part of his view on health and disease is based on work of Gilbert Ling, who Peat had referred to a lot, i.e. the presence of structured water (gel-like environment) in the cells .
Let me summarize his main points
- Water in cells exists in gel like form due to the unfolded state of certain protein and the charge differential in and out of the cells.
- Cells are kept at an ideal distance from one another by virtue of the existing of similar negative charges with in the cytoplasm
- These charges are largely the result of the distribution of potassium and sodium (more potassium inside and more sodium outside the cells).
- He sees cancer as a mass of cells that in a way clump together to form a hardened mass because they lost their gel-like (structured water) properties, due to loss of potassium inside the cells, and energy deficiency state due to upregulated glycolysis (the latter is common to the bioenergy community view, but there was no mention of excessive cell division of undifferentiated cells)
- two key tenants in his approach to cure:
1. High potassium / low sodium diet
2. A ketogenic diet to bypass glycolysis and to drive full fatty acid oxidation in order to produce more ATP.
He explained that ATP's purpose was not to store energy, but rather facilitate the unfolding of protein in order to produce the structured water environment.
I guess I was completely surprised by his advocacy for keto and lack of regard for the possibility that it is possible to support the shift from being stuck in the the glycolysis metabolism to being being able to fully oxidize glucose.
Was also surprised by no bring up the possibility that the ketogenic state is stressful and can do more harm.
It was interesting to me that both him and Ray were highly influenced by Ling, and yet, there dietary approach to treating cancer is quite different, even in terms of sodium intake.