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The LLVLC Show (Episode 650): Elaine Cantin Beat Her Breast Cancer, Son’s Type 1 Diabetes With Ketogenic Diet

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In Episode 650 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” it’s such a pleasure to have a cancer survivor and ketogenic diet health proponent named Elaine Cantin joining us for a fantastic interview. When Elaine received the devastating diagnosis that she had breast cancer, her doctors wanted to put her on an aggressive treatment of chemotherapy to deal with it. But this didn’t sound good to her at all after watching many of her own family members go down this same road with little success.

When Elaine’s tumor continued to grow in size, her doctors insisted on emergency surgery and radiation treatments. But she had been already been learning about the ketogenic diet for epilepsy and began implementing her own modified version of this nutritional plan. Within weeks, her tumor shrunk and shrunk until it completely disappeared. Her oncologist was stunned and declared her cancer-free.

After seeing the tremendous success her ketogenic diet had curing her breast cancer, Elaine decided to start using her diet on her son with Type 1 diabetes to see if they could reduce his dependence on insulin. When he sticks with the diet, his blood sugars remain stable without the need for taking insulin. Elaine has documented all of the information she has learned about her version of the ketogenic diet in her book The Cantin Ketogenic Diet: For Cancer, Type I Diabetes & Other Ailments which she talks with me about in today’s extraordinary episode. ENJOY!

Listen to Elaine Cantin describe her ketogenic diet plan:

  • Her son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and hospitalized
  • He experienced having a lot of ketones while he was sick
  • This enabled him to come off insulin for a few days
  • Starvation actually produced an adequate amount of ketones
  • You can replace starvation ketones with a ketogenic diet
  • Her ketogenic diet is optimized for health removing toxins
  • She’s trying to make the body more akaline
  • It’s a clean diet that can also be vegan-friendly
  • She uses healthy fats like coconut oil and olive oil
  • There’s no dairy or red meat in her diet
  • Addition of herbs and spices and removal of allergens
  • This gave her the most chances to survive
  • Her exposure to the Atkins diet and other ketogenic books
  • She read John Freeman’s Ketogenic Diets book
  • First Do No Harm movie started her education
  • She manipulated what she learned to make this work for her
  • What it means to be alkaline and why it’s important
  • When you are more alkaline, you have more oxygen in your body
  • She’s learned a lot from Dr. Thomas Seyfried
  • Dr. Seyfried’s Cancer As A Metabolic Disease book
  • If you need to restrict calories, you need to remove toxins
  • Usually what you crave the most is what is harming you
  • Many people think ketogenic diets are only about weight loss
  • But there are many health improvements seen with ketosis
  • The three basic ketone body types and the amount in the body
  • Health benefits of being in a ketogenic state
  • Ketones strengthen your body and improves your brain health
  • I’ve seen these benefits myself being in nutritional ketosis
  • Life Without Bread notes that you don’t need carbs
  • Why calorie-restriction is unnecessary with ketogenic diet
  • If you have an intolerance to dairy, you’ll feel it
  • But if you lower it, then the side effects don’t manifest
  • She removes the major allergens to get rid of the problem
  • No aluminum, fluoride or processed foods in her diet at all
  • You can eat more of the foods that won’t be harmful to you
  • If you have to limit something, it’s got harm you
  • Ketogenic diets have been described as “fed starvation”
  • You can feed your body and still starve the cancer
  • The hundreds of autoimmune issues her diet is good for
  • Dr. William Coley used “immunotherapy” to give fever for healing
  • People with multiple schlerosis are using ketogenic diets now
  • ALS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases too
  • We will see more and more conditions looked at for this
  • She raised urine ketones by cutting carbs in her diet
  • What kind of response she’s seen from her ketogenic diet
  • A lot of people think fruit is natural and good for them
  • Fruit is sugar and sugar fuels cancer cells
  • Fructose can be a major allergen for a lot of people
  • People are fed up with conventional treatments for cancer
  • The woman who’s lung cancer tumor is shrinking
  • How her Type 1 diabetic son is doing on ketogenic diet
  • There’s “pressure” on him as a teenager making this a “pain”
  • She did test her diet on her son and he didn’t need insulin
  • His mood improved when he was doing this diet
  • It’s been two years since she’s been in remission from cancer
  • She never did any chemo or radiation…just ketogenic diet
  • She was told her cancer was aggressive and needed chemo
  • They scared her into thinking it would move into her bones
  • Her doctor says she is in complete remission from cancer
  • She feels fine these days despite bucking convention
  • Why more medical professionals don’t support ketogenic diets
  • What a day in the life of her ketogenic diet looks like
  • Whether she spontaneously does intermittent fasting
  • Her very high-fat, very low-carb green protein drink she has
  • Who she believes is doing fantastic work with ketogenic diets
  • Dr. Dominic D’Agostino at University of South Florida is “star”
  • We’ll be getting Dr. D’Agostino on this podcast later this year
  • Ketogenic diets featured on CBN in December 2012
  • Like The Cantin Ketogenic Diet Facebook Page

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    Well, what did you think of Elaine Cantin and her ketogenic diet that helped heal her breast cancer and her son’s Type 1 diabetes? Give us your thoughts about what you heard in the show notes section of Episode 650. Pick up your own copy of The Cantin Ketogenic Diet: For Cancer, Type I Diabetes & Other Ailments and go “Like” her Facebook page. Coming up on Wednesday, I’m excited to share with you about the great work of one of my fellow health podcasters Vinnie “America’s Angriest Trainer” Tortorich who understands the power of the ketogenic diet in your health and performance. This will be my final episode for a while as I am writing my book, but I’ve got some great guest hosts and special shows in store for you while I’m away in February and March. Stay tuned!

    Coming up this Thursday in Episode 37 of the “Ask The Low-Carb Experts” podcast, we will share our final episode for a few months on a fascinating topic for all of you exercise gurus out there. Carbohydrate loading has become so deeply-ingrained (all pun intended!) in our culture for endurance athletics these days that hardly anyone questions whether it is the most effective means for fueling exercise performance or not. We’re pleased to have a bona fide expert on this topic with a triathlete and sports scientist named Ben Greenfield to share what he has learned about the role ketogenic diets can have in maximizing exercise performance. Start getting me your questions on this topic NOW by e-mailing them to AskTheLowCarbExperts@gmail.com no later than 3PM ET on the day the podcast airs. You can also ask your question LIVE on my show by calling (712) 432-0900 or Skype the show for FREE by calling the username freeconferencing.7124320900. Whether you call or Skype, be sure to use the access code 848908. Listen LIVE and leave us a review at iTunes if you like what you hear. This is your chance to interact with the best nutritional health experts in the world, so don’t be bashful. We’re glad to be back and look forward to sharing this brand new episode of “Ask The Low-Carb Experts” with you later this week.

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    • Jeff Consiglio

      Cancer prevention is one of the main reasons I follow an LC diet, and recommend it to all my personal training clients. And just the overall HEALTH BENEFITS of a reduced carbohydrate lifestyle are, to me, a much more compelling narrative than LC’s effects upon bodyweight.

      • LLVLCBlog

        Absolutely Jeff!

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000816092324 Paul Cooke

      nothing novel about starvation diets for treating type 1 & 2 diabetics… the tragedy is why the method had been forgotten about for so long. Here’s a book from 1916!!!

      http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26058/26058-h/26058-h.htm

      • LLVLCBlog

        Yep, it worked then out of necessity but it will work now out of prudence.

        • Diana Moon

          Are you actually recommending diabetics starve?

          • LLVLCBlog

            Nobody is saying that. But a ketogenic diet mimics the effects of starvation in killing cancer cells.