Summary: Lucy Kunz, Ph.D. is my featured guest for today’s Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show, which is the third episode of a special series on Carbohydrates and Cancer. As I cited in the JEV News on March 2, 2012, that “more cancer victims need to give carbohydrate restriction or ketogenic diet a try for the sake of improving their odd of winning the battle against cancer.” Here is Dr Kunz the person in point! Dr. Kunz, an American/German world class swimming champion, was found having ovarian cancers on December 1, 2003, but refused to give herself up to the evil disease. Despite that she has had many surgeries, chemotherapies, and courses of radiation during the last eight years, she has continued to swim and compete in many swimming contests, from which she has won so many medals. For the last two years, she has adopted carbohydrate-restricted diet under the guidance from a team including Ulrike Kämmerer, PhD, Rainer Klement, PhD, and others. Up to date, her PET Scan on November 16th, 2011, which shows no tumor growth, in comparing with one done on June 8th, 2011. In this interview, I am going to ask Dr. Kunz about her experience in fighting against cancer. I bet you want to listen to it . Let’s tune in now! About Lucy Kunz, PhD: Excerpt from the German Newspaper Main Post, January 31st, 2009, Nr. 25, SWT Page 17, Local Sports (translated by Lucy Kunz, PhD.) English Translation of “Eine Weltmeisterin und ihr harter Kampf” A World Champion Swimmer and her Fight to Win: Schonungen resident and art historian Lucy Kunz swims to beat her main opponent—cancer Known for her American accent, the smile on her face and the kind words she always finds for others, Dr. Lucy Kunz, director of the swimming programm for Schweinfurt’s largest sports association, is well-known and well-liked not only in the pools where she trains but far beyond them. The American-born trainer is greeted warmly by the life guards at the local pool „Das Silvana“, given a New Year’s gift from the Silvana’s restaurant, and generous help from an instructor in styling her hair for the press photos. For the first time, the current world champion and record holder in life saving swimming speaks openly about her difficult battle with cancer, as well as her hopes and goals. It was last year, in June of 2008, during the competition in Berlin, Germany, when Kunz became a world champion in life saving swimming. (1) She swam the 200 meter race in obstacle swimming in the wold record time of 2:49.58, breaking the previous record by a over 14 seconds. The German Secretary of Commerce, Michael Glos, wrote a letter of congratulation in which he praised the willpower and iron discipline with which she was able to assert herself in this swimming meet amongst 4000 competitors. In the previous years Kunz has won gold, silver and bronze medals in German Masters competitions. In the year 2008 alone she earned eight gold medals in Bavarian championships. In addition, she was a multiple winner in the German International Championships for the Handicapped, in which she participed in the category AB („generally handicapped“). That she has accomplished all of this is especially remarkable in light of her recent background: the 53 year old has had to live with the diagnosis of ovarian cancer and the continually required therapies since November of 2003. At the invitation of Dr. Johannes Dietl, Professor and Director of the Women’s Clinik, University of Würzburg, she composed an essay entitled: „ I live and I swim with the Diagnosis Cancer.“ Kunz was born in Salem, Oregon and has lived in Germany since the early 1980′s when she studied at the University of Münich with a Rotary International Scholarship. She now lives in Schonungen, near Schweinfurt, with her husband and three children. She trains three to four times a week in addition to the many hours of teaching at the pool. During her 100 days of chemotherapy, which began in the summer of 2004,[...]
