A few days of fasting might help protect patients from some of the unpleasant and dangerous side-effects of cancer chemotherapy.
They said mice given a high dose of chemotherapy after fasting thrived while half of a group of well-fed mice died, they reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The researchers stressed that people should not try this on their own yet but said the findings might lead to a way to use chemotherapy to more effectively kill tumors while sparing healthy cells.
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Fasting could also be a great way to cleanse the body of toxins that can be very harmful.
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