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continues, you get further erosion of soil, you get cracks in the soil, and getting absorbed into the blood stream. These
surface material starts seeping into the ground water. That is exactly the substances are opiates, and opiates essentially
same process that happens in the human gut. People “strip their grass” paralyze your immune response.
with antibiotics, with vaccines, with processed foods, with not getting the So in the GAPS diet we eliminate all disac-
right flora via the birth canal due either to a C-section or gut dysbiosis in charides including sugar, potatoes, sweet pota-
the mother. Lastly, “civilized” people today are no longer eating probiotic toes and grains; lactose is also a disaccharide so
foods. All these factors create an unhealthy gut ecology, a flattening of fluid milk, even raw milk, needs to be avoided.
the villi, and actual holes in the gut wall. The diet emphasizes lots of healthy fats like but-
The villi are a source of the enzyme disaccharidase, which digests ter, ghee and coconut oil, grass-fed meats and
disaccharides, just as lipase digests lipids and protease digests protein. As organ meats, wild seafood, fermented raw dairy
you lose the integrity of the villi you lose the ability to digest disaccharides products, low-starch vegetables, some fruit, bone
because you lose the ability to produce the enzymes solely responsible broths and cod liver oil.
for this function. If you continue to eat disaccharides, they cannot be I should add that I also prescribe pancreatic
digested, and instead feed fungus, yeasts, and toxic microorganisms that enzymes, based on the work of Dr. Nicholas
are present in the gut. These are like crab grass growing on the soil. Crab Gonzalez (see review, page 46). I use lyophilized
grass doesn’t protect the soil, it doesn’t make the good micronutrients, it pancreatic enzymes from Allergy Research ex-
doesn’t make the B vitamins, and it doesn’t protect the lining. Instead, it tracted from New Zealand pork, lamb and beef,
results in bloating and gas and all the other things that people with sickness all at one time. The dose is 10-15 capsules, three
experience. As the condition of the villi worsens, even less disaccharidase times per day, on an empty stomach.
is produced, and we have a vicious cycle. Eventually you get ulcerative
colitis—an erosion through the mucosa into the muscle layer, and that is LOW DOSE NALTREXONE
like a bad crater in the soil. As a result of this leakiness of the gut you end up Now let’s introduce low dose naltrexone
with these two predominant chemicals, gluteomorphin and casomorphin, (LDN) into this picture, and see what it has to

WHY CANCER PATIENTS NEED MORE FAT

If you have cancer of your colon or liver, breast or prostate, and we want to know if the cancer has spread to any
other part of the body, we can use a nuclear medicine imaging technique called PET (positron emission topography).
This technique highlights any other nests of cancer cells and is the conventional approach for checking on the spread of
cancer. The process involves radioactively tagged glucose that is injected into the body and then that glucose is selectively
picked up by various cells in the body. We know that cancer cells love to eat glucose, so they actively pick up the tagged
glucose. The highlighted nests of radioactive glucose therefore indicate areas of the strongest growth of cancer cells. In
other words, cancer cells thrive on sugar. Cancer cells use an anaerobic respiration of sugar to form acids. That is the
metabolism of cancer cells. The reason the cancer patient starves while the cancer cells grow is because they are much
better at taking up the sugar than are normal cells. If we understand this selective metabolism of cancer well enough to
diagnose its growth, then the next step is to withhold sugar and see what happens. The trouble is we need a backup fuel
source. And there is a back up fuel source: ketones from fats. Cancer cells cannot metobolize ketones. Normal cells do
fine on ketones; we know this from fifty years of successfully utilizing a therapeutic very high-fat ketogenic diet. Cancer
patients on a ketogenic diet will often have their tumors shrink and will halt their cachexia—their physical wasting and
weight loss. The cancer cells starve on a ketogenic diet, but normal cells thrive.
Now take a moment to think of these pre-civilized people 10,000 years ago before the cultivation of grains. I hope
by now you are convinced they did not suffer from cancer. These people ate a ketogenic diet. Think about pre-grain,
pre-potatoes, pre-milk—where were the carbohydrates? They ate seventy percent animal foods, a little bit of seeds and
nuts, a few vegetables that they could find, honey when they could chase off the bees. And we know that they favored
the animal fats rather than the proteins. Their main fuel was ketones. Our whole notion of the right diet for cancer pa-
tients today is backwards. The knee-jerk dietary prescription for cancer patients is a lowfat, high-carbohydrate diet. But
the primary fuel for many human groups is ketones, and the backup fuel is glucose. Glucose as a fuel source would have
been used in an emergency—to sprint away from a dangerous situation, for example. It is essentially an anaerobic backup
system that produces lactic acid and acidosis and is only meant to be used for a brief period of time.
It is also important to note that with the ketogenic diet protein intake is kept low to moderate, with fat as the main
fuel source. Protein consumption in excess of your actual needs will be metabolized like sugars, by the way. Insulin has
long been implicated as the growth hormone, stimulating growth in cancer cells as well. We want to lower the insulin
levels in the blood and by far the most reliable way to do that is to get rid of the sugar.
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