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This repository explores the theory of winter-fasting and its correlation with cancer prevention. Using an AI model to suggest relevant resources.

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Abstract

The theory is that the majority of people on earth, especially those of descendants from a cold environment, are getting cancer and diseases because they are missing a long term period of fasting, caloric restriction and a high fat diet during winter and spring, which was prevalent in their ancestors' lives. The purpose of this paper is to explore the evidence of fasting, caloric restriction and a high fat diet and its correlation to cancer. As well as exploring the advent of agriculture as the cause of cancer. The arguments are analyzed from a logical standpoint using the first principles approach.

Background theory

Statistics

Cancer is the second highest cause of deaths, where cardiovascular diseases take first place, according to data collected from 2017 (Roser and Ritchie 2015). The techniques presented in this theory would probably eliminate cardiovascular disease as well, but I'm only focused on cancer for the topic of this paper. My speculation is that cancer started to significantly develop alongside the constant consumption of carbohydrates, probably caused by agriculture and the availability of carbohydrates. We can base some assumption that the current society is suffering from cancer, however, there is little evidence that pre-agricultural society was suffering from cancer, with an exception to bone cancer. Odes et al. (2016) analyzed a specimen from South Africa dated to be 1.8 million years old. They concluded that the specimen had a small growth of malignant bone cancer. Odes et al. also explains that bone tumors are not related to lifestyle, compared to cancer in soft tissue. This is not supported by Leite et al. (2021) and Fan et al. (2017) where they see a large dependency of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and glucose in bone cancer, and that fasting, caloric restriction and a ketogenic diet would have beneficial effects against the cancer. Something to note is that bone cancer from ancient specimen are mostly benign and always under control, suggesting that bone cancer might serve a function for rapid repair in cases of skeletal trauma.

Lieverse et al. (2014) observed one of the earliest forms of soft tissue cancer, metastatic carcinoma. The specimen was dated to 4600 years ago and was found in Eastern Siberia. Johnson (2010) and Schultz et al. (2007) found two remains of soft tissue cancer to date back to 2700 years ago. The specimen was found to have a form of prostate carcinoma cancer, and according to Kaiser et al. (2020), prostate carcinoma cancer has a direct association with insulin resistance. They found that a low carbohydrate/ketogenic diet should be favored for their superior impact on metabolic parameters. This does support the theory of rising cancer rates caused by the advent of agriculture, which started *getti