066: Thomas Seyfried - Upending Traditional Cancer Treatment with Ketosis, Fasting, and Hyperbaric Oxygen
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
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🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
After researching how ketosis combats seizures in children with epilepsy, Dr. Thomas Seyfried realized that it could have even more of an impact.
This time, he set out to see what the research showed when it comes to combating tumor growth and cancer in patients.
What he discovered was nothing short of incredible.
His research proved that cancer is a metabolic disease -- similar to type 1 or 2 diabetes, not a genetic one.
So your genes, or even genetic mutations, don’t cause cancer.
And since cancer is a metabolic disruption, there are ways to restore balance and reduce the size of cancer tumors.
But those science-backed strategies don’t involve the typical cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation.
Instead, Dr. Seyfried’s research showed that ketosis, fasting, and hyperbaric oxygen were more effective at treating tumor growth.
You’ll hear more about this and everything else he’s discovered over decades of research when you tune into the episode.
And if you haven’t come across Dr. Seyfried’s work yet, he wrote the book, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease, and has over 150 peer-reviewed publications.
This episode is jam-packed with information and it’s one you don’t want to miss.
Check out the episode now to learn more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, thanks for tuning in to the Keto Answers podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm your host, Dr. Anthony Guston, and joining me this week is Dr. Thomas Saferead. |
| 0:13.5 | Doc here, blew my mind. |
| 0:15.2 | There was a lot of information on this one. |
| 0:16.6 | He has done so much work in the field of cancer and using ketogenic diet for cancer. |
| 0:22.2 | Started researching epilepsy and seizures, and that brought him to using ketogenic diet |
| 0:27.9 | and a whole bunch of different things to treat cancer. |
| 0:31.0 | His approach is very, very different from standard of care. |
| 0:34.2 | He does not think that anybody should be using what he calls poison, chemotherapy for |
| 0:39.4 | cancer treatment, and he thinks that there's a much better way. |
| 0:41.8 | So if you're interested in that, I was obviously. |
| 0:45.2 | So take a pen and paper and get it out. |
| 0:49.2 | There's a lot of notes here. |
| 0:50.2 | So many people are affected by this stuff. |
| 0:52.2 | Cancer rates, I mentioned this in a previous episode, are one and two in men in the US now, |
| 0:56.8 | and one in three in women. |
| 0:57.8 | So it means something that's just critically important. |
| 1:00.0 | We're not solving that problem. |
| 1:01.0 | So people like Dr. Saferead here are a huge part of the puzzle to try to move in the |
| 1:05.2 | red direction. |
| 1:06.2 | So tune in and I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:08.4 | Before we get to the episode, I wanted to chat about a sponsor, Perfect Keto. |
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