Fasting may reduce chemotherapy side-effects

by John on June 24, 2008

Chemotherapy harms cancer cells as well as normal cells. Chemotherapy is designed to be more harmful to cancer cells than to normal cells, but the damage to normal cells can be brutal.

New studies suggest that fasting prior to receiving chemotherapy may reduce the number of normal cells harmed by the treatment. Fasting may put normal cells in a defensive mode that increases their resistance to chemical attack.

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