Knowledge gap One of the main reasons that
malignant brain cancer remains such a life - threatening disease is that little is known about many aspects of the condition.
According to the National Cancer Institute, there was a 10 percent increase in
malignant brain cancer in 1985 — just two years after aspartame flooded the market in diet beverages.
Medulloblastoma is the most
common malignant brain cancer in children, and develops at the rear and base of the brain, near the bottom of the skull.
In 1995, Nebeling and coworkers attempted the first nutritional metabolic therapy for
human malignant brain cancer using the ketogenic diet.
Based on pre-clinical studies in mice and case studies in patients, it is obvious that the RKD should be investigated for its therapeutic potential for managing GBM and
other malignant brain cancers.
Calorie restriction and restricted ketogenic diets (R - KD), which reduce circulating glucose levels and elevate ketone levels, are anti-invasive, anti-angiogenic, and pro-apoptotic
towards malignant brain cancer.
Researchers at Boston College are investigating the effect of ketogenic diets for the treatment
of malignant brain cancer, as published in the February 2007 issue of «Nutrition & Metabolism.»
What's more, surgery for HGG is an even more complicated story because
these malignant brain cancers tend to grow tentacle - like tendrils that burrow deep into the brain.
In the video, Professor Seyfried discusses how, as a metabolic disorder involving the dysregulation of respiration,
malignant brain cancer can be managed through changes in the metabolic environment.