Nutrition is an integral part of ways to treat certain diseases, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, but a new study still preliminary results have reinforced recent research that diets may play a role in cancer treatment.
An article published in Nature magazine showed that a drastic reduction of amino acid found in red meat and eggs increased the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiation treatment in mice, while slowing tumor growth.
But it's still too early to come up with conclusions about a potential human efficacy, said Jason Lucasal, a professor at Duke University in North Carolina.
His team reduced rat consumption of amino acid known as methionine, which is essential for the body that is supplied through food because it is unable to produce it itself. This amino acid is used, which plays an essential role in metabolic reactions to the development of cancer cells.
The researchers tested this diet on healthy mice to ascertain their desired effects on metabolism, and then on rodents with cancer or soft tissue sarcoma (two rare cancers that usually affect organs or the rib cage).
It was enough to subject mice to simple chemotherapy, which alone would not have affected cancer, and "the growth of the tumor declined significantly." The case is the case when the reduction in methionine consumption is attached to radiation therapy in mice with soft tissue sarcoma.
"We're surviving cancer cells by depriving them of certain nutrients," Jason Lucasal told AFP.
"This is not, of course, a comprehensive cancer treatment, but it shows that abstaining from certain foods affects the metabolism, which in turn affects the growth of cancer cells."
The researchers first tried this diet on 6 healthy people for 3 weeks.
They observed a similar result to those recorded in mice, which increases the likelihood that this diet may have an effect on the growth of some tumors in humans.
However, before conclusive results are reached, more research and funding must be mobilized.
By Orochi Chris August 2, 2019
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