Courtesy of Jeannie Kim
- Scientists think that a fasting-mimicking diet might boost chemotherapy treatment.
- The hope is two-fold: that the diet might ease side effects, and improve treatment outcomes.
- One woman who tried the diet in a clinical trial for breast cancer shares her experience.
Reproductive cancers run in Jeannie Kim's family. Her dad had pancreatic cancer, her grandfather had gastric cancer, and aunts on both sides of her family have had breast, uterine, and ovarian cancers.