28/02/2026
Cancer - Glucose Is The Bigger Issue, Stop Focusing On Glutamine!
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths people will go to protect their consumption of carbohydrates. Even in the face of a terminal illness and death! 🤔
There is clear evidence dating back to Otto Warburg winning the Nobel Prize back in 1931 for discovering that, in simple terms, cancer, unlike healthy cells, needs GLUCOSE to thrive.
This effect is called the “Warburg effect”, the near universal feature of cancer metabolism: tumors thrive on glucose as their primary fermentable fuel.
Logically, then, the most obvious strategy should be to cut off that fuel by not eating carbohydrates and sugars, forcing cancer cells to starve while normal cells adapt to ketones (which most cancers can't use efficiently). Right?!
But Nooooooo! With the discovery that some cancers can also use glutamine as fuel the focus instantly flipped to glutamine. 😕
"Now, you can eat your carbs, because glutamine is what makes cancer grow and you can suppress that with drugs." Really?! 🙄
People would rather do extended fasting (not healthy for a sick body that needs nutrients to fight cancer), and take a drug to inhibit glutamine, which is something a healthy body happens to need, than simply stop eating carbohydrates.
This makes no sense.
According to Dr. Thomas Seyfried's extensive research on cancer, glucose and glutamine are the two main fermentable fuels driving tumor growth, but glucose is the more universal and primary fuel across virtually all cancers.
Although many cancers can also use glutamine for energy and growth, not all cancers exhibit the same level of glutamine dependency. Most cancers prioritize GLUCOSE.
Glutamine is not a universal fuel across all cancers.
Seyfried's "press-pulse" approach prioritizes chronic glucose deprivation (via a calorie restricted ketogenic diet to lower blood sugar and raise protective ketones) as the foundation, with glutamine targeting (often via drugs like DON) as a complementary "pulse" for tougher cases.
Even in glutamine dependent cancers, eliminating glucose greatly improves treatment results because cancer cells lose their favorite fuel source, making glutamine alone far less effective for cancer growth.
The simplest, fastest, cheapest, and most powerful step in the fight against cancer is to stop feeding the cancer by cutting all carbohydrates immediately.
No exotic drugs, no extreme fasting (which can deprive a weakened body of needed nutrients), no risking healthy cells' glutamine needs.
Just cut the carbs and deprive cancer of it's main fuel for growth. It's that simple. Just do it.
Yet so many resist this simple change. I truly don't understand why, when the evidence points to it as a core, non-toxic way to fight cancer. 🤷♀️