Can the Ketogenic Diet Cause Brain Tumors (Glioblastomas)?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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There was a study done on the ketogenic diet and brain tumors. Let’s discuss that study.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So is the ketogenic diet now causing brain tumors? Now recently there was a |
| 0:49.9 | study done on the ketogenic diet increasing tumor growth, specifically the |
| 0:56.2 | growth of glioblastoma, which is a specific type of aggressive tumor that |
| 1:00.4 | grows in the brain. And I wanted to discuss the study. |
| 1:03.0 | So I reached out to Professor Thomas Seifred |
| 1:06.0 | to get his opinion on it, |
| 1:08.0 | and I copied his response in the description below |
| 1:11.0 | the entire thing, so you can check it out. This abstract... in the you. So that's point number one. So it really wasn't reviewed before it was published. |
| 1:25.0 | And if you don't know anything about Thomas Seifree, he is a professor, |
| 1:30.0 | been researching cancer for decades at Boston College and he is author of this book |
| 1:35.9 | Cancer as a metabolic disease an amazing amazing book the research that he is doing |
| 1:41.2 | using the ketogenic diet with fasting is amazing and it'll blow you away. |
| 1:47.0 | I put some links down below so you can get more data on that. |
| 1:50.0 | So this success rate on different types of cancer, including glioblastoma, |
| 1:55.0 | is remarkable. |
| 1:57.0 | But what I want to talk about is basically the most important factor. |
| 2:01.0 | It's the type of mice that they used in the study. It was a U87-M-G |
| 2:06.3 | xenograph mouse, okay? Specifically NOD SCID. What does this stand for? |
| 2:13.0 | Non-obees, diabetic, severely compromised, |
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