{"id":227701,"date":"2025-12-23T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/dietary-restriction-fuels-t-cells-with-ketones-boosting-their-cancer-fighting-stamina"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:10:14","slug":"dietary-restriction-fuels-t-cells-with-ketones-boosting-their-cancer-fighting-stamina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/dietary-restriction-fuels-t-cells-with-ketones-boosting-their-cancer-fighting-stamina","title":{"rendered":"Dietary restriction fuels T-cells with ketones, boosting their cancer-fighting stamina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dietary-restriction-fuels-t-cells-with-ketones-boosting-their-cancer-fighting-stamina.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reducing calorie intake helps cancer-fighting immune cells do their jobs more effectively, reports a study by Van Andel Institute scientists and collaborators. The findings lay the groundwork for developing dietary strategies to boost the effects of a powerful class of cancer immunotherapies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing evidence suggests dietary restriction has anti-cancer effects but the \u2018why and how\u2019 are not well understood. Our new study reveals one way this relationship may work: by providing T cells, the soldiers of the immune system, with the right mix of nutrients to more effectively fight cancer,\u201d said Russell Jones, Ph.D., chair of VAI\u2019s Department of Metabolism and Nutritional Programming and corresponding author of the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditional research is needed but we are hopeful these insights can inform evidence-based dietary guidelines to improve the effectiveness of immune-based cancer treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing calorie intake helps cancer-fighting immune cells do their jobs more effectively, reports a study by Van Andel Institute scientists and collaborators. The findings lay the groundwork for developing dietary strategies to boost the effects of a powerful class of cancer immunotherapies. \u201cGrowing evidence suggests dietary restriction has anti-cancer effects but the \u2018why and how\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}