525: How to Starve Cancer & Heal the Body | Dr. Thomas Seyfried
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/525drthomasseyfried
Thomas N. Seyfried (IG: @thomasseyfriedbc) is Professor of Biology at Boston College, and received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Biochemistry.
He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is author of the book, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer.
If you or someone you know has cancer, you’ll definitely want to tune in and learn about this alternative way of treating the disease.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Are less people really dying of cancer these days?
- Treat cancer as a metabolic disease, not a genetic disease
- The biggest challenges getting cancer research recognized
- Metabolic therapy vs. standard of care
- Treating brain tumors with metabolic therapy
- How to measure your glucose ketone index (GKI)
- Cancer loves glucose and glutamine
- Genetic mutations aren’t the cause of cancer
- The primary role of ketone bodies
- What is Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT)?
- The growth of cancer cells
- Are exogenous ketones being used as an adjunct to therapy?
- The press-pulse strategy for glutamine
- Administering low-dose drugs under therapeutic ketosis
- The standard of care for cancer is not working
- Water fasting vs the keto diet/drug combo
- Learning to manage cancer without recurrence
- What is the DON? + How the press/pulse strategy works
- Metabolic therapy isn’t getting a fair clinical trial
- The future of cancer
- Cancer is a massive tragedy for humanity
- Can cancer screening be non-invasive?
- How to prevent cancer
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Related links:
Dr. Thomas Seyfried - Cancer as a Metablic Disease (book)
Follow Dr. Thomas Seyfried on Instagram and Twitter
Dr. Thomas Seyfried - Boston College (Research Publications)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Cancer Revolution (documentary)
Listen to Dr. Dominic D'Agostino previously on TUHP (episode #133)
Guy Tenenbaum & Fred Evrard - Can We Heal From Cancer? (book)
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280: Dr. Josh Axe – Keto Diet • Treating Cancer With Food • Collagen Is Essential
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast. It's a metabolic disease that can be that's driven by two |
| 0:06.3 | fuels, the sugar glucose and the amino acid glutamine. And these two fuels are the ones that drive |
| 0:11.5 | the dysregulated cell growth, which is ultimately the definition of cancer. So when people say, |
| 0:15.8 | what is cancer, it's dysregulated cell growth, cell division out of control. What is it driven by? |
| 0:20.8 | It's driven by a form of energy that doesn't require oxygen. Oh, yeah, well, what doesn't require |
| 0:26.5 | oxygen. Well, fermentation mechanisms. Oh, yeah, what's that? Well, you use fuels that don't |
| 0:31.0 | require oxygen. What are these fuels? These fuels are the sugar glucose and the amino acid glutamine. |
| 0:36.9 | Wow, that seems simple. How come nobody's targeting these fuels to manage cancer? |
| 0:40.9 | Because they think it's a genetic disease, not a metabolic disease. |
| 0:49.6 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 525. I'm Jesse Chappus and I'm here to take |
| 0:55.4 | your health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and |
| 0:59.7 | wellness leaders from around the world. This week I'm chatting with Dr. Thomas Seafried. Dr. Seafried |
| 1:05.5 | is professor of biology at Boston College and received his PhD in genetics and biochemistry. |
| 1:11.5 | He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is author of the book Cancer as a Metabolic |
| 1:17.2 | Disease on the origin management and prevention of cancer. If you or somebody you know has cancer, |
| 1:23.2 | you're definitely going to want to tune into this one to understand this alternative way of |
| 1:27.3 | managing this devastating disease that affects so many. Highlights of our conversation include |
| 1:33.1 | are less people really dying of cancer these days. Treat cancer as a metabolic disease, not a |
| 1:38.4 | genetic disease. Cancer loves glucose and glutamine. Can exogenous ketones be used as an adjunct |
| 1:44.9 | to therapy and how to prevent cancer? As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen, |
| 1:50.8 | this full conversation is available over on YouTube. You can get there by going to |
| 1:54.4 | ultimatehelppodcast.com slash YouTube. Be sure and subscribe so you don't miss any of the action |
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