By Zaahied Sallie
There is no panacea for cancer but both modern and natural science is in agreement that the starvation of cancer cells triggers abnormal cell death and retards tumour growth.
What is further fascinating about the many studies is that normal healthy cells become healthier as cells detox during fasting. Even more astonishing is that a patient undergoing chemotherapy suffers fewer side effects from the therapy when fasting.
Fasting is an inhibitor of the insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) receptor. This inhibitor, when activated, protects cell damage when the body is exposed to high levels of toxicity as is in the case when undergoing chemotherapy.
A 72-hour fast in mice reduced IGF-I by 70% and increased the level of the IGF-I inhibitor IGFBP-1 by 11-fold. LID mice, with a 70% to 80% reduction in circulating IGF-I levels, were protected against three of four chemotherapy drugs tested. This study was done by the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of California.
Another study published in the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Journal reported a 20 to 40% reduction in calorie intake or dietary restriction (DR) protects a wide variety of organisms against oxidative stress and ageing (1-6). Because of this broad ability to promote stress resistance, DR could, in theory, be applied in the clinic to protect patients from toxic side effects of chemotherapy.
Allan Cott, MD, writes in his paper titled Controlled Fasting Treatment for Schizophrenia: “In the earliest eras of recorded civilisation, humans found in fasting not only a method of treatment and prevention of some diseases but a potent weapon for self-discipline and moral education. For this reason, the fast became an integral part of many religious doctrines and occupied the thinking of physicians and philosophers of Ancient Greek, Tibetan, Indian, and Middle Eastern cultures.”
Dr Cott continues by saying that “it is, however, only since the middle of the 19th Century that investigation of fasting as a therapeutic modality was removed from the lore of folk medicine and became the principal method of treatment in clinics and sanatoriums in Switzerland, France, Germany, and to a lesser extent in the United States.”
“At present, the fasting experience has been the treatment of choice for many thousands of physically ill patients. It is used in internal medicine with excellent results in the treatment of metabolic disorders, allergic diseases, skin disorders, arthritis, ulcerative colitis, and cardiovascular disorders.”
Current scientific research findings validate the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ when he said ‘many ailments stem from the stomach and fasting starves disease to its death”.
We continue to cause the contamination of our world and everything in it. Our food, water, air, household products, beauty products, pharmaceuticals and technologies are all laden with toxins, parabens and carcinogens all of which are of our design.
This toxic soup has made victims of us all with our diseased bodies symptomatic of the lives we lead. The World Health Organisation estimates that 80 million people will die of cancer within the next ten years. That is more people than the entire German population and more than the combined lives lost in the two World Wars.
Allah says in Surah Hud, verse 114 that “Indeed, good deeds obliterates evil deeds. That is a reminder for those who remember.”
This verse elucidates that purity is needed to detoxify. We should launch a pure offensive against toxins starting with regular fasting.
Cancer victims and health-care practitioners should ponder if adding more toxins to an already contaminated body in the case of chemotherapy or other toxic interventions is the right choice.
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ also said الصيام جنة “Fasting is a shield”.
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ fasted every week of his life to shield himself from both physical and spiritual ills.
The second and third offensives should be the consumption of pure nutrition and water followed by the pureness of thought and action.
This cycle will offer the necessary healing our bodies and minds yearn for.
Regular fasting should surely be a strongly recommended tradition (Sunnah Mu’akkad) in today’s toxic age.
The month of Ramadan must surely be the greatest detox.
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