S1E6: Health Check Ep 6: Can soursop or ketogenic diets be used to treat and control cancer?
Health Check Ep 6: Can soursop or ketogenic diets be used to treat and control cancer?
11:20 mins
Synopsis: In this fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays, The Straits Times guides you to healthier living and debunks the myths with expert guests.
Dr Wong Seng Weng - medical director and consultant medical oncologist at The Cancer Centre - answers the following questions about alternative therapies to treat cancer.
Can soursop be used to treat cancer? Also, is there potential harm from taking large quantities of soursop or soursop extracts that are made from the fruit, leaves, roots or bark?
Dr Wong explains how some of the substances found in soursop can cross over from the bloodstream into the brain and cause nerve damage.
How about using a ketogenic or keto diet to control cancer?
A keto diet is essentially a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet. This is certainly not the normal diet here, as a typical diet in the Asian community consists of nearly 60 per cent carbohydrates.
Dr Wong advises us if this keto diet is a viable alternative therapy to treat cancer.
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