650: Elaine Cantin Beat Her Breast Cancer, Son’s Type 1 Diabetes With Ketogenic Diet

Written on January 29, 2013

Elaine Cantin on The Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show

Cancer survivor and ketogenic diet health proponent Elaine Cantin is our guest in Episode 650 of The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!

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When Elaine Cantin 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 Jimmy about in today’s interview.

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- Elaine Cantin bio on Facebook
- The Cantin Ketogenic Diet: For Cancer, Type I Diabetes & Other Ailments
- The Cantin Ketogenic Diet Facebook page
- RELATED BLOG POST: “High-Fat, Low-Carb Ketogenic Diet For Cancer Featured On The 700 Club”
- RELATED PODCAST: Ask The Low-Carb Experts #31: Dr. Colin Champ | Ketogenic Diets And CancerEdit Entry
- RELATED PODCAST: The LLVLC Show #628: Dr. Eugene Fine Uses Ketogenic Diet In RECHARGE Cancer Trial

http://diagnosisdiet.com/ Dr. Ede

Dear Jimmy and Elaine
Thank you for this excellent interview about how to improve upon the traditional ketogenic diet by removing potential dietary culprits such as dairy. I just read Seyfried’s book (mentioned by Elaine), Cancer as a Metabolic Disease, and was also surprised by the degree of calorie restriction he recommends. When I looked more closely at the diets the mice in his studies were fed, I discovered that these diets were very strange, indeed. The inclusion of bizarre ingredients such as wheat flour, soybean oil, and dairy products made me wonder if these mice would have fared better had they been eating a healthy whole foods ketogenic diet. Since we know that whey protein raises insulin levels just as much as sugar does, it would make sense that they would have had to restrict calories more than perhaps may have been necessary. I summarized Seyfried’s incredible book in plain English in a series of 4 short blog posts on my website if anyone is curious to learn more. I include the mouse diet info in full detail there. Keep up the great work,
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Just when you think you have heard it all, someone comes on the “fat” scene and finds another area of health benefit for a high fat diet.

Thanks for sharing. I will use this in my practice.