#385 What Everyone Needs To Know About Cancer with Professor Thomas Seyfried
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Dr Rangan Chatterjee
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
When I started medical school in 1995, we were taught that one in four people was likely to develop cancer in their lifetime. Today, that statistic has changed to one in two – a rapid rise that can’t be explained by genetics. But if our modern diet and lifestyles are the cause, we have more control than we might think.
That’s the message my guest, Professor Thomas Seyfried, has worked tirelessly to prove and communicate over his four decades as a cancer researcher. Professor Seyfried is a professor of biology, genetics and biochemistry at Boston College, Massachusetts, and author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, as well as the 2012 book Cancer As A Metabolic Disease.
Through his research, and in this conversation, he sets out to explain how it’s a malfunction in our mitochondria – the energy powerhouses in each of our cells – that’s at the root of every cancer he’s studied. Normal-functioning mitochondria, he explains, use oxygen to make energy. In cancer, this process is disrupted. Cancer cells cannot use oxygen, so they fall back on a primitive form of energy creation known as fermentation.
It follows then, explains Professor Seyfried, that if we can somehow stop this fermentation process, then cancer cells will die. Cancer uses glucose and glutamine to fuel fermentation. While we don’t want to block glutamine, as it has other uses in the body, we can drastically lower our glucose levels to stop driving cancer growth.
We discuss some of the ways in which we can start doing this – for example, using specific low-carb diets and nutritional ketosis. Professor Seyfried also talks us through his ground-breaking ‘metabolic therapy’ protocols for treating cancer – sometimes, alongside conventional treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Professor Seyfried has spent decades researching and proving a metabolic cause for this devastating disease. This a compelling and optimistic conversation, packed with actions we can all take to reduce our risk not just of cancer, but all the chronic conditions driven by metabolic disruption.
CAUTION: This podcast discusses ketogenic diets and water-only fasting. Always consult a qualified healthcare practitioner before making any drastic changes to your diet or before going for prolonged periods without eating.
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| 0:00.0 | We have a lot of tools for managing cancer. It's just that we haven't been |
| 0:04.1 | using them in the correct way or understanding the concepts of evolutionary |
| 0:07.7 | biology to enhance the success of the treatments that we already have. It's not |
| 0:12.8 | that complicated. All the cancers that we know are fermenting. To get energy, |
| 0:17.3 | hypoglycemia is an accelerant to rapid tumor growth. The higher the blood |
| 0:22.6 | sugar, the faster the tumor grows. The lower the blood sugar, the slower. Once |
| 0:27.3 | you know that, then the path to long-term management without toxicity becomes |
| 0:31.7 | obvious. Hey guys, how you doing? Hope you have any good weeks so far. My name is |
| 0:37.5 | Dr. Rongen Chatterjee and this is my podcast. Feel better. Live more. Today's |
| 0:46.3 | conversation is all about cancer. Now the first thing I want to say is that I |
| 0:51.0 | understand that cancer can be a very scary word and that all kinds of complex |
| 0:56.9 | emotions can come up when we hear it. But I do believe we need to talk about it |
| 1:01.8 | more. Not only that, I think we urgently need to be broadening out the |
| 1:06.1 | conversation around cancer and hearing from a diverse group of scientists and |
| 1:11.5 | researchers. You see, when I started medical school back in 1995, we were taught |
| 1:17.2 | that one in four people would develop cancer. Today, that number has gone up to |
| 1:22.7 | one into a rapid rise that simply cannot be explained by genetics. But if on |
| 1:29.0 | modern diet, lifestyles and environments are the cause, we actually have a lot |
| 1:34.0 | more control that we might think. That's the message my guest today has worked |
| 1:38.6 | tirelessly to prove and communicate over his four decades as a cancer |
| 1:43.5 | researcher. Professor Thomas Seafried is a professor of biology, genetics, and |
| 1:49.0 | biochemistry at Boston College, Massachusetts. And he is the author of more than |
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