Then COVID -19 happened – and like everything else at the moment, that game has to be put on hold. We do still plan on having this charity game when the restrictions have been lifted and this year we will have a renewed motivation and focus, as we commit ourselves to raising as much money as possible for one of our own who has sadly been diagnosed with cancer – Andrew ‘Parky’ Parkinson.

Eight months after our first Wudzy game in January 2019, we received the devastating news that Andrew had been diagnosed with a rare form of bladder cancer. Parky – with his cheeky, charismatic nature and impressive basketball skills – is a much-loved figure in Australian basketball and it was a great shock to all of us when we learned of this terrible news.

Researchers have found that cancer is NOT a genetic disease but is in fact a metabolic disease that results from damage to the mitochondria.When the mitochondria is damaged cancer cells can no longer rely on the standard and most efficient form of fuel to feed the cells oxygen – instead the cancer cells must rely on fermentation – and the only 2 fuels that are available for cancer to feed off is glucose and glutamine.

The good news is that healthy cells can rely on ketone bodies and fatty acids to survive and in fact thrive, but cancer cells cannot, so by switching the body to a ketogenic diet and eliminating or reducing glucose we starve the cancer cells of their primary fuel. However, cancer can also be fuelled by glutamine and unfortunately this is much more difficult to control and reduce as the body needs glutamine and in fact makes it’s own to fuel other important functions and organs in the body. This being the case we cannot eliminate glutamine from the body, we can only restrict or pulse it to limit the amount available to the cancer. Fortunately with the stores of glutamine restricted the body will preferentially direct the important amino acid to the critical functions first.

Importantly we ensure the body in a state of therapeutic ketosis and only then when the cancer cells are vulnerable and starved of their primary fuel do we temporarily inhibit the supply of glutamine. Then when they are starved their only 2 sources of fuel we hit them with a range of therapies that will kill the crippled/weakened cells. Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) are used to kill the cells.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Sono Dynamic Therapy, Hyperthermia, High Potency Vitamin C – are all non toxic, safe methods of treatment with no nasty side effects.

Cancer cells are vulnerable – unlike healthy cells that are extremely resilient. – Rhonda Patrick & Peter Attia podcast – Rob Newton