Cancer disease has become the first cause of death in the United States and world-wide. Most Researchers estimate that 595,690 of American people will die from cancer at the end of the year 2017. That means 1,600 deaths/day approximately. Cancer in modern societies is commonly treated with the combination of organ surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy which has many side effects and the high possibility of metastasis. Many kinds of diet strategies have been experimented. However, none of them have been particularly effective. According to Otto Warburg hypothesis in the 1930’s, the cause of cancer is the change in the metabolism of mitochondrion in human cells. Low oxygen in tissues in combination with high blood glucose will change the cell respiration from aerobic to anaerobic which leads to fermentation type of respiration. Professor Thomas N. Seyfried in 2012 proposed cancer as a metabolic-mitochondrial disease. He has mentioned that all cancer cells’ mitochondria are damaged and do not work properly. Mitochondrion
Author(s): Sorush Niknamian