Another key, off-label drug McLelland learned about from reading Life Extension was the diabetes drug, metformin. Metformin is critical for starving cancer because it cuts off cancer’s supply to glucose and insulin, and reduces IGF-1.

In this truly ground-breaking book, Jane takes us through her remarkable, heart-breaking journey, and the medical discoveries she made along the way. The use of ‘off label’ drugs for treating cancer is finally gaining traction. Yet Jane discovered these herself in 2003. Unbeknown to her, she would become ‘patient zero’. McLelland discovered that there were numerous drugs on the market designed for other purposes (like heart disease or infections) that could go beyond diet and supplements to effectively cut off cancer’s various fuel lines. These drugs are considered “off-label,” since they were developed for conditions other than cancer. The Metro Map is the key to starving the cancer. Once you’ve done that, killing it becomes much easier,” said McLelland. McLelland created a diagram depicting her approach to starving cancer that she calls the “Metro Map,” based on an analogy of an underground metro system. Suggesting that people fast or starve themselves to kill a tumor has been the domain of dubious and exaggerated claims over the years, and that is not the suggestion now. In recent trials, metabolic pathways have been targeted though various approaches to changing what people eat. Some research has involved minimizing sugar intake. Indeed, some cancer cells metabolize glucose at higher than normal levels (to support the process of aerobic glycolysis), and depleting their access to sugar can slow growth.

A Wake-up Call

If you have any questions on the scientific content of this article, please call a Life Extension ® Wellness Specialist at 1-866-864-3027. One fan even asked for more updates regarding his lifestyle change and wrote: "Ooh could you post more of your meal pics? Very interested on how this works and what you eat, amazing. Keep on keeping on". Years later, she also discovered the anti-cancer effects of the antibiotic doxycycline (which slows the creation of new cancer cells) and of the anti-worming drug mebendazole (which stops the cancer cells from being able to take on more glucose). Galima bandyti argumentuoti, kad čia tik vienas atvejis, kad nežinia dėl ko pavyko pasveikti, kad už pasveikimą atsakinga chemoterapija, o ne tie magiški vaistai. Visi šie punktai turi pagrindą. Tačiau lieka dar vienas didelis BET. Jane yra tokia gan konkreti ir ne iš kelmo spirta moteriškė, ir visą savo gydymo eigą, visus vaistus ir papildus ji kruopščiai research'ino. To rezultatas yra daugiau nei 250 nuorodų į atliktus tyrimus, ir rašydamas "tyrimus", aš turiu omeny tuos "tikrus" tyrimus, peer reviewed and published stiliaus tyrimus, kuriuos visus kiekvienas norintis gali susirasti tokiuose kuklučiuose saituose kaip NCBI, PubMed, International Journal of Oncology ir taip toliau. For a long time, the prevailing thought was that altered metabolism in cancer cells was the result of genes and mutations that determined metabolism,” says Jason Locasale, a cancer biologist at Duke University. “Now, as we know, it’s a complex interaction of environment and genes, and one of the major factors at play is nutrition.”

Nutrients or vitamins are not simply good or bad, cancer-causing or cancer-fighting. If a book or blog recommends a single “cancer diet”—or even a supplement that promises to fight cancer—beware. It could end up making things worse. Especially if there is a person on the cover in a white coat with arms folded, and with teeth that look like they have never been used. STARS! I'm in tears. I just finished chapter 19 of this book. I just love Jane! I love her. Her ❤️, her tenacity in the face of crazy levels of difficulty, and her desire to share!! This strategy could be applied beyond rare sarcoma tumors because the metabolic defect is often present in other cancers, including certain types of breast, colon, lung, brain and bone tumors, the researchers said. The new study includes data showing similar anti-tumor responses in cell lines from these cancer types. Van Tine also pointed out that all of the drugs used in the study are either already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for other conditions or in ongoing clinical trials investigating cancer drugs. My mother’s cancer was a huge wake-up call to me to re-evaluate the situation I’d found myself in. For the first time ever, I realized I was only one step away from terminal cancer,” McLelland said. “That’s when I started looking at diet and supplementation in more detail as a way to combat cancer.” When Jane McLelland first heard the devastating news, she was only 30 years old. Just three days later, she underwent a complete, radical hysterectomy, followed by months of chemotherapy and radiation.Now, 18 years later, after suffering from cervical cancer, secondary lung cancer, and treatment-related myelodysplasia, she is alive, well, and cancer-free.