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Hacking Chemo: Using Ketogenic Diet, Therapeutic Fasting and a Kickass Attitude to Power through Cancer Treatment
Your cancer is hungry all the time. Stop feeding it and start feeding yourself.
Cancer thrives on sugar. Cancer cells need it, unable to grow and multiply without a steady supply of glucose. But when you’re diagnosed with cancer, recommendations from oncology doctors often result in increased blood sugar and insulin levels—the essential foods that cancer cells need to thrive.
In Hacking Chemo, Registered Dietitian and cancer survivor Martha Tettenborn uncovers the secrets of cancer metabolism, offering a refreshing new way of treating the disease with minimal side effects and maximum effectiveness. Cancer treatments like chemo don’t have to derail your life. You can be your own bio-hacker by decoding how cancer works in your body…and your life.
In this book, you’ll discover:
A low-carb ketogenic diet plan to stress cancer cells and prevent new cancer growth while providing optimal nutrition to your body.
The Chemo Cycle Fasting Protocol to put your healthy cells into stealth mode and minimize chemo side effects.
Helpful tips to ease “low-carb flu” as you shift from a Standard American Diet into ketosis.
How to heal your mind, recover your spirit, and avoid “You Poor Dear” Syndrome with your Circle of Care.
Sixteen simple-to-make, delicious keto-friendly recipes to get you through chemotherapy—and beyond!
Change how you fuel your body, add in a kickass "take control" attitude, and you’ll have nontoxic but tough tools to power your way back to health. Don’t feed cancer—hack it!
Cancer thrives on sugar. Cancer cells need it, unable to grow and multiply without a steady supply of glucose. But when you’re diagnosed with cancer, recommendations from oncology doctors often result in increased blood sugar and insulin levels—the essential foods that cancer cells need to thrive.
In Hacking Chemo, Registered Dietitian and cancer survivor Martha Tettenborn uncovers the secrets of cancer metabolism, offering a refreshing new way of treating the disease with minimal side effects and maximum effectiveness. Cancer treatments like chemo don’t have to derail your life. You can be your own bio-hacker by decoding how cancer works in your body…and your life.
In this book, you’ll discover:
A low-carb ketogenic diet plan to stress cancer cells and prevent new cancer growth while providing optimal nutrition to your body.
The Chemo Cycle Fasting Protocol to put your healthy cells into stealth mode and minimize chemo side effects.
Helpful tips to ease “low-carb flu” as you shift from a Standard American Diet into ketosis.
How to heal your mind, recover your spirit, and avoid “You Poor Dear” Syndrome with your Circle of Care.
Sixteen simple-to-make, delicious keto-friendly recipes to get you through chemotherapy—and beyond!
Change how you fuel your body, add in a kickass "take control" attitude, and you’ll have nontoxic but tough tools to power your way back to health. Don’t feed cancer—hack it!
245 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 19, 2020
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About the author
Martha Tettenborn
1 book2 followersMartha Tettenborn, RD is a Registered Dietitian and certified Primal Health Coach with over 30 years of experience working in many areas of nutrition. She currently works in long-term care with a focus on nursing homes and gerontology. Her private practice, Primal RD, promotes a low-carb and high-fat lifestyle for healthy aging and chronic disease prevention.
When diagnosed with Stage 1 ovarian cancer, Martha began exploring the research of the disease and discovered the science of cancer metabolism. This led her to develop and use a protocol of ketogenic diet with targeted therapeutic fasting to significantly impact her response to chemotherapy. Inspired by her own journey, Martha wants to help others see cancer differently—as an experience that will give you strength, wisdom, and more love for your body and life than ever before.
A featured speaker at the Low Carb Long Weekend Summit, Martha shares her knowledge as a dietitian and experience as a cancer patient to inform others about the power of metabolic interventions to support conventional cancer treatment. Martha also instructs courses teaching the ketogenic approach to cancer treatment for the Nutrition Network and Udemy.
A cancer survivor since 2018, Martha is an avid hiker, cyclist, live theatre backstage crew member, and a wannabe world adventurer. She lives on the beautiful Bruce Peninsula in central Ontario, Canada with her husband, Mike, a noisy cockatiel named Ziggy, and a flock of backyard chickens. Learn more at marthatettenborn.com.
When diagnosed with Stage 1 ovarian cancer, Martha began exploring the research of the disease and discovered the science of cancer metabolism. This led her to develop and use a protocol of ketogenic diet with targeted therapeutic fasting to significantly impact her response to chemotherapy. Inspired by her own journey, Martha wants to help others see cancer differently—as an experience that will give you strength, wisdom, and more love for your body and life than ever before.
A featured speaker at the Low Carb Long Weekend Summit, Martha shares her knowledge as a dietitian and experience as a cancer patient to inform others about the power of metabolic interventions to support conventional cancer treatment. Martha also instructs courses teaching the ketogenic approach to cancer treatment for the Nutrition Network and Udemy.
A cancer survivor since 2018, Martha is an avid hiker, cyclist, live theatre backstage crew member, and a wannabe world adventurer. She lives on the beautiful Bruce Peninsula in central Ontario, Canada with her husband, Mike, a noisy cockatiel named Ziggy, and a flock of backyard chickens. Learn more at marthatettenborn.com.
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January 2, 2021
A well researched guide to the benefits of Ketogenic Diets and Intermittent Fasting to augmenting cancer treatment and improving quality of life with a cancer diagnosis
I would highly recommend this book to anyone with a cancer diagnosis seeking to improve their health outcomes and minimize the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. This book gives a thorough and easily understandable presentation of the current evidence on Ketogenic Diets and Intermittent Fasting in cancer and augmenting benefits of cancer therapies. It comes complete with a practical guide to implementing ketogenic diets and intermittent fasting protocols for those going through chemotherapy and/or radiation. The author inspires the reader with her personal story of her journey through an ovarian cancer diagnosis, surgery and chemotherapy and her learnings along the way. She also provides the readers with guidance for lifestyle practices that help support optimal health following cancer treatment and living with cancer as a chronic disease. The author provides a number of practical favourite recipes that serve to support the reader with successful implementation of ketogenic diets and intermittent fasting. Finally, the book closes with a thorough list of references and resources for further reading on Ketogenic Diets, Intermittent Fasting and the benefits of both during cancer treatment and thereafter. Well done and so nice to see fellow Canadian Dietitian stepping forward with courage to share her story with the world.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone with a cancer diagnosis seeking to improve their health outcomes and minimize the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. This book gives a thorough and easily understandable presentation of the current evidence on Ketogenic Diets and Intermittent Fasting in cancer and augmenting benefits of cancer therapies. It comes complete with a practical guide to implementing ketogenic diets and intermittent fasting protocols for those going through chemotherapy and/or radiation. The author inspires the reader with her personal story of her journey through an ovarian cancer diagnosis, surgery and chemotherapy and her learnings along the way. She also provides the readers with guidance for lifestyle practices that help support optimal health following cancer treatment and living with cancer as a chronic disease. The author provides a number of practical favourite recipes that serve to support the reader with successful implementation of ketogenic diets and intermittent fasting. Finally, the book closes with a thorough list of references and resources for further reading on Ketogenic Diets, Intermittent Fasting and the benefits of both during cancer treatment and thereafter. Well done and so nice to see fellow Canadian Dietitian stepping forward with courage to share her story with the world.
May 9, 2021
PLEASE fellow cancer patients- Read This Book and consider implementing the protocols. You will not be sorry!
I was curious about this book because for my own colon cancer I had already been doing keto and intermittent fasting, so was interested in any further tips and tweaks to my own diet. What I found was not only informational and scientific, but highly encouraging emotionally as well. I felt coached by a buddy who had been there, done that, and could walk me through every little twist and turn in the road. It was a fun read- like a visit from a friend with my best interests at heart.
I can also attest to the effectiveness of this way of eating during chemo, for my side effects have been minimal, and my affected areas smaller. Some nodes have resolved. I feel better and more energetic, though I still have my down days, which usually just means more sleeping. The hallmark of the experience is that I bounce back.
A highlight of this book is how practical the advice given is. I found several useful items to add to the repertoire of practices for the chemo rounds, plus the tone in which the entire book is written offers encouragement to tender self-care. It says “Just be easy on yourself, doing what you can. Every little bit helps. You can absolutely do this!”
A phrase I would use to describe this book would be “Helpfully Practical”.
I was curious about this book because for my own colon cancer I had already been doing keto and intermittent fasting, so was interested in any further tips and tweaks to my own diet. What I found was not only informational and scientific, but highly encouraging emotionally as well. I felt coached by a buddy who had been there, done that, and could walk me through every little twist and turn in the road. It was a fun read- like a visit from a friend with my best interests at heart.
I can also attest to the effectiveness of this way of eating during chemo, for my side effects have been minimal, and my affected areas smaller. Some nodes have resolved. I feel better and more energetic, though I still have my down days, which usually just means more sleeping. The hallmark of the experience is that I bounce back.
A highlight of this book is how practical the advice given is. I found several useful items to add to the repertoire of practices for the chemo rounds, plus the tone in which the entire book is written offers encouragement to tender self-care. It says “Just be easy on yourself, doing what you can. Every little bit helps. You can absolutely do this!”
A phrase I would use to describe this book would be “Helpfully Practical”.
November 25, 2020
This book gives you tips on how to work through chemo. I wish I had read this book two years ago because I could have helped my mother and my brother. There are so many good tips and recipes to help you. I did not know sugar was a no no and can hurt someone on chemo. If you have someone dealing with cancer this is a good book to buy. I received an arc and the views and opinions are my own.
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