Welcome back to the Diet Doctor Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Brett Schur.

Today I'm joined by Dr. Angela Poff.

Now, Angela's a research associate in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology

in the University of South Florida.

And she's working in the same lab as Dr. Dominic DiAgostino, but she's really flourished in her own right

and has sort of taken over the cancer side of that lab

looking at nutritional interventions for cancer.

And it's a really exciting field

because when you think about it, how prevalent cancer is,

pretty much everybody has been touched by cancer,

either personally or by a loved one.

In cancer therapies, although you can say we've progressed, we probably haven't progressed

as quickly as many people would have hoped with this sort of genetic basis of cancer.

Well, now there's this resurgence of this whole other concept of the metabolic basis of

cancer. And how can we treat metabolic disease with diet, with nutrition, and specifically with

a ketogenic diet and maybe even exogenous ketones.

Now, there's a lot of excitement about this field, but as you'll hear Dr. Poff and I discuss,

it's still a lot of pre-clinical evidence, which puts us in a bit of a tough balancing act of how strongly to

promote this because people want a cure, people want something to help, they'll latch on to

anything. And if we have something that can help them, we should be promoting it. But does the

strength of the evidence support the strength of the recommendation? So we do have to be a little

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