Ask: Sugar is bad for cancer, is it also bad for other growths like psoriasis?

2 points by DYZT 10 years ago | 2 comments

Sugar is bad for cancer, is it also bad for other growths like psoriasis? From what I understand cancer cells use sugar as their fuel for rapid division. With psoriasis skin cells rapidly divide and grow out of control (1000X times more than with healthy people). Can reducing sugar from one's diet somehow improve the state of the illness?

I couldn't find any evidence or research in this field, though I'm not a professional.

imauld 10 years ago |

Sugar is a pretty broad term (fructose, galactose, lactose, sucrose, glucose are all different types of sugar). In a really over simplified way almost everything you eat gets converted to glucose at some point. That glucose is then used to create ATP via cellular respiration (the Krebs cycle) to power your cells. There is "sugar" in everything you eat. There are stores of glycogen, a stored version of glucose, in the muscles of the animals you eat. So yes, there is "sugar" in steak, chicken, pork etc.

So cutting down on sugar likely wouldn't have an effect. Once again in an over simplified way all your cells are powered by sugar, cancerous cells aren't unique in this way. I'm not a biologist though so I could be wrong.

JacobAldridge 10 years ago |

Check out (by which I mean 'have a read and maybe contact') Irene Prantalos's website http://www.ireneprantalos.com - I'm no expert, but when it comes to focus and expertise she's the most dedicated I've come across.