{"id":67036,"date":"2026-09-07T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67036"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:42:01","slug":"what-are-you-feeding-your-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67036","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Feeding Your Cells?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Healthy_Meals.jpg\" alt=\"Healthy Meals\" width=\"531\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Healthy_Meals.jpg 531w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Healthy_Meals-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr Pete Sulack writes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hi Tom,\u200b<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After my cancer diagnosis, I stopped looking at food in terms of calories and started looking at it in terms of <strong>biology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Every meal creates a response in the body. Blood glucose and insulin change, your gut microbiome is affected, and you&#8217;re supplying your cells with fats, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and thousands of naturally occurring plant compounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That&#8217;s why diet became one of the five pillars of my approach and something I became extremely intentional about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In today&#8217;s blog, <strong>What Are You Feeding Your Cells?<\/strong>, I break down:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2022 The research on ultra-processed foods and cancer risk<br \/>\n\u2022 Why cancer metabolism changed the way I thought about glucose<br \/>\n\u2022 Why I personally used therapeutic ketosis, and why I don&#8217;t recommend everyone copy me<br \/>\n\u2022 Why a Mediterranean-style diet is one of the first approaches I&#8217;d look at for most people<br \/>\n\u2022 The foods I intentionally eat for compounds being studied in angiogenesis and other cancer-related pathways<br \/>\n\u2022 Where I would start if changing your entire diet feels overwhelming<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drpetesulack.com\/untitled-3\/diet-blog-post\">https:\/\/www.drpetesulack.com\/untitled-3\/diet-blog-post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Pete Sulack writes: Hi Tom,\u200b After my cancer diagnosis, I stopped looking at food in terms of calories and started looking at it in terms of biology. Every meal creates a response in the body. Blood glucose and insulin change, your gut microbiome is affected, and you&#8217;re supplying your cells with fats, amino acids, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67036\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Are You Feeding Your Cells?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67038,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67036\/revisions\/67038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}