L-Glutamine and How it Feeds Prostate Cancer

Plasma glutamate levels directly correlate with the prostate Gleason score and the primary cancer’s aggression; this finding could lead to less invasive ways to diagnose prostate cancer rather than a biopsy and points to natural treatments for glutaminase rather than hormone therapy targeting testosterone.

One research study published in 2012, was very clear in its conclusion, also showing that in men with metastatic cancer, serum glutamate was considerably higher that in men with only a primary tumor.

Back in 2012, the researchers suggested that it would be a much more accurate test for prostate cancer than taking a PSA reading or having a biopsy with its risks of infection and disease-spread.

Glutamate is an alternative fuel for cancer cells after sugar. It can be made from folic acid, glucose and is involved in fat metabolism but its primary precursor in glutamine, an amino acid widely available in protein, especially animal protein.

Glutamine is also a non-essential amino acid, meaning that if your body runs short, you simply make it from other sources. You muscles are glutamine-rich; you brain holds about 25% of the glutamine in your body.

Glutamine is available in meats such as chicken, game and steak, and bone broth. It is also found in cheese. Glutamate deprivation reduces prostate growth.

Another conclusion of the study was that glutamate deprivation reduced growth, invasion and migration of prostate cancer. As does glutamate ‘blockade’.

Even if you don’t get glutamine from your diet, your body will make the amino acid if and when it senses you’re deprived. That’s probably because cells, especially immune cells, need some glutamine to do their jobs.

But if you have cancer, glutamine can spur tumor growth. While you’ll never be able to eliminate glutamine from your diet, you can, however, eat foods that keep cancer cells from using glutamine.

Here’s the what, why and how:
Green tea: contains EGCG, which inhibits an enzyme, glutamate de-hydrogenase, that helps cancer cells use glutamine
Ashwaghanda: contains the enzyme L-asparaginase, which keeps you from digesting glutamine.
Seeds of fresh peppers: All peppers from the capsicum annum family, including the large sweet bells and many smaller pungent peppers, contain L-asparaginase, especially in their seeds.

When it comes to treating prostate cancer, it’ll take more than taking EGCG, reducing the bad fats from your diet and avoiding sugar.

I suggest getting Jane McLelland’s book and get her course on How to Starve Cancer which you can get by going to my website DrWardBond.com - Her book and the cancer course will help build the complete protocol to fight prostate cancer, even more effectively than your oncologist who doesn’t understand nutrition.

Her program will not interfere with traditional cancer therapies and thousands of people around the world are beating cancer by understanding that each different type of cancer has a different feeding pathway. Once you understand
what feeds your cancer, you shut off those pathways and the cancer dies.

Jane McLelland beat two different types of terminal cancer and you can go to my website or YouTube Channel and watch my two interview with Jane McLelland to learn more.