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Insulin potentiation therapy is an unproven and
dangerous alternative cancer treatment. The hormone insulin is created
in the pancreas of your body. Lack of it or improper use can cause any
diabetes such as type 1 diabetes or juvenile diabetes, type 2 diabetes,
gestational diabetes. To know more about diabetes, you can check the
site of American Diabetes Association. Insulin modulates many of the
body's functions at the cellular level. Now, insulin potentiation
therapy (IPT) is a contentious replacement medicine therapy that uses
FDA approved cancer fighting drugs in lower doses. It is used by some
alternative medicine practitioners to treat cancer and other diseases
because the lower dosing of drug discards many of the debilitating side
effects of ordinary chemotherapy. This treatment is also sometimes
referred to as "low dose chemotherapy". For more information, read Risk
Factors For Type 1 Diabetes.
Proponents of
insulin potentiation therapy cite that it is a productive cancer
treatment that also dramatically reduces the repulsive side effects of
chemotherapy. They believe that cancer cells consume more sugar
(glucose) than healthy cells do and as a result are more sensitive to
insulin. IPT is performed by injecting insulin in the arm, followed by
an injection of chemotherapy drugs. The insulin causes low blood sugar
(hypoglycemia), which supposedly makes cancer cells more susceptible to
chemotherapy drugs.
Side effects that normally accompany
chemotherapy are minimized because the chemotherapy doses can be as
little as 10-15 % of the standard dose. While this therapy has been used
for decades in Mexico and some other countries, there is absolutely no
scientific evidence that may prove that all its claims are true.
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