302: The Shocking Root Cause of Cancer and How to Starve It Naturally | Thomas Seyfried, PhD

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Thomas Seyfried, PhD is a preeminent cancer expert and professor in the department of biology at Boston College. He received a PhD in 1976 in genetics and neurochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, followed by a postdoctoral degree from Yale University in the field of neurochemistry and genetics.

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0:00.0	What up friends, welcome to episode 302 of The Genius Life.
0:17.2	What's going on everybody welcome back to another episode of the show, I'm your host Max
0:21.4	Lugovier, a filmmaker, health and science journalist and New York Times best selling author.
0:25.8	I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind how our choices including what we
0:29.6	eat and how we live affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel our health
0:34.5	span and risk for disease. This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state,
0:39.5	which I call living like a genius. Staying true to my mission, I have a banger of an episode for you
0:46.4	today, in which I welcome Dr. Thomas Safreed. Dr. Safreed is a highly published trailblazer in the
0:53.7	arena of conquering cancer. In 2012, he published his groundbreaking book, Cancer as a Metabolism
0:59.5	metabolic disease on the origin, management and prevention of cancer, which provided extensive
1:05.0	information showing that cancer can be best defined as a mitochondrial metabolic disease
1:09.7	rather than as a genetic disease. Put another way, Dr. Safreed believes that the majority of cancer
1:15.2	cases today are driven by metabolic dysfunction, oxidative stress and the fermentation of glucose
1:21.6	for fuel by cancer cells. This theory has incredible implications for the development of new
1:27.0	non-toxic cancer therapies, namely those that are dietary in origin. We talk about the research
1:32.7	backed benefits of a ketogenic diet for starving cancer, the limitations of conventional cancer
1:37.5	treatment and how you can actually be proactive about cancer prevention, utilizing tools like diet,
1:43.5	lifestyle and even fasting. Dr. Safreed is a firecracker of knowledge and I super appreciate his
1:50.4	passion and expertise in this arena. And on top of it all, man's even has a sense of humor.
1:56.6	So listen through all the way to the end, make sure that you're subscribed to the genius life,
2:00.4	and please share this episode with friends and loved ones that you think may benefit from it.
2:04.6	As you listen to this, I am finally on my way back to the states from London where I've been
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