Angela M. Poff—Cancer Biologist and Metabolic Health Summit Cofounder— Globalizing the Conversation about Ketogenic Diets and Therapies
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Just a few years ago, Angela M. Poff noticed that a lot of leading scientists and clinicians were studying ketosis and metabolic therapies for different diseases, but weren't getting together to share their ideas and have productive conversations; this all changed when she decided to found the Metabolic Health Summit in 2015, which now serves as a hub for those who want to work together to develop ideas and move new information in the field to the next level.
The goal of the 2019 Metabolic Health Summit is to foster a global conversation about the ketogenic diet and how to implement it in the real world and will feature several personal stories from those whose lives have been affected by the adoption of the keto lifestyle. The conference is not just for scientists this year; it's for everyone. The best scientists and clinicians will lead sessions dedicated to different uses of the ketogenic diet, including for Alzheimer's, mental health, obesity, migraines, cancer, and longevity.
Poff also works as a research scientist at the University of South Florida, where she focuses primarily on the effects of metabolic therapies on cancer. In particular, she studies how the ketogenic diet affects cancer models, the role of exogenous ketones in the development of cancer, and the role of metabolic targeted agents, such as dichloroacetate and metformin. Poff discusses a variety of topics, including how and why hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be successful in treating tumors and the biggest roadblock to continued research in the field.
If you or a loved one is dealing with cancer, Poff suggests visiting clinicaltrials.gov and working closely with your oncologist.
Visit www.metabolichealthsummit.com for more information about the upcoming Metabolic Health Summit conference.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
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| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast and the Future Tech Health |
| 0:31.5 | podcast and my guest is Angela M Puff, she's a cancer biologist, a metabolic therapy researcher, and |
| 0:39.0 | MHS co-founder, the metabolic health summit, co-founder that the Metabolic Health Summit, co-founder. That's coming up early 2019, so we'll talk about that. We'll introduce her and talk about her work. So Angela, how you doing? |
| 0:50.3 | I'm great. How are you? Well, good. Yeah, I thought acronyms is supposed to make |
| 0:54.6 | stuff easier to pronounce but it was harder for me to pronounce it for some reason |
| 0:58.0 | so. Right. No worries. Well, cool. Well, before we get into your work, let's talk about the metabolic health summit. |
| 1:08.0 | What's that about and, you know, what's interesting about and why should people attend? |
| 1:13.0 | Um, Metabolic Health Summit is really an incredible event. |
| 1:18.2 | I was just mentioning to you earlier, you know, it was something that started, we started planning the first one in 2015 and |
| 1:25.6 | back then it was known as the conference on nutritional ketosis and metabolic |
| 1:31.0 | therapeutics and we have since then decided that was just too much of a mouthful so we |
| 1:36.5 | shortened it to metabolic health summit but it's forced to foremost a scientific |
| 1:41.3 | conference and at the time when we decided to plan this we said you know there's so many leading scientists and clinicians around the world studying not just ketosis, |
| 1:55.3 | but that was a major focus, but other metabolic therapy |
| 1:59.7 | that are not necessarily, you know, |
| 2:02.0 | getting together and speaking about their work to each other and kind of stay in their |
| 2:06.5 | own fields and we thought we've got to bring everyone together because that's where we have |
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