The ketogenic diet shuts down the fuel supply of cancer cells. They are poorly equipped to convert ketones into energy. A ketogenic diet has the potential of restoring mitochondrial activity leading to either cancer cell death or changing them into normal, healthy cells.

Proliferation of cancer cells requires glucose production. Cancer cells become weakened when they experience energy stress, which occurs when there is an interruption in the availability of their primary source of energy – glucose. Cancer cells use glucose to protect themselves against oxidative stress. Therapies that produce oxidative stress in cancer cells include chemotherapy, radiation, vitamin C IV, artesunate IV, ozone therapy, and Vitamin C/K3 therapy. Combining these therapies with a ketogenic diet will increase the effectiveness of these therapies and reduce the cancers ability to defend itself.

Ketones are an optimal source of energy for healthy cells, while the opposite is true for cancer cells. Ketones reduce blood glucose levels and are metabolized in the mitochondria. When glucose is lowered, insulin levels drop. Glucose & insulin are strong drivers for cancer.

Ketones are converted to energy in the mitochondria. Because of their damaged mitochondria, cancer cells cannot effectively use ketones as an energy source and becomes metabolically vulnerable. In this state either the mitochondria is activated and with a functioning mitochondria, the cell has a chance to repair genetic mutations, or if the cell is too damaged, cell death is initiated. The cell death switch is controlled by the mitochondria.