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| Alkylglycerols |
| Alkylglycerols are found abundantly in animals, chiefly in bone marrow, but also in mother's milk (ten times more than in cow's milk), as well as in shark liver oil, from which they are extracted for oral consumption. Alkylglycerols have been shown to be powerful protectors of bone marrow function during chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Alkylglycerols are particularly helpful for the production of granulocytes and thrombocytes in the bone marrow and can inhibit leucopenia (white blood-cell suppression), thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), and to a lesser extent, anemia. |
| In a vast research project at Radiumhemmet in Stockholm, Sweden, Astrid Brohult was able to demonstrate that patients with carcinoma of the uterine cervix who received alkylglycerols both before their first radiation treatment and throughout the course of external radiation, had a significantly better survival rate than patients who were not given alkylglycerols. 116 |
| Medium-Chain Triglycerides |
| Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) are used to induce the body's energy source to derive from fats rather than sugar (glucose). |
| Elevated blood glucose can divert prostaglandin pathways toward tumor-promoting PGE-2, which is immune suppressive, aggregatory, and vasoconstrictive, and inhibits the biosynthetic pathways of estrogen binders. Maintaining low levels of blood glucose selectively starves tumors while also causing lower insulin output; this helps regulate prostaglandin synthesis. MCT oil can aid in keeping blood glucose levels low. It is also a very easily absorbable source of energy. |
| Cancer cells gobble up sugar ten to fifteen times more than normal cells do. Tumors of the central nervous system seem to be the most sensitive to glucose, but all cancerous growth is fed by glucose. This is what leads to cancer-caused cachexia (wasting syndrome). Cancer cells steal glucose from the liver by converting lactic acid into glucose. Inhibiting cancer-cell gluconeogenesis without interfering with normal cell metabolism may be one important aspect to slowing or stopping tumor growth and inhibiting cachexia. Cachexia, not the cancer itself, is what makes some cancers fatal. |
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