Thomas Seyfried, PhD-Boston College Biology Department-Metabolic Therapy A Toxic-Free and Potentially Standalone Treatment for Cancer
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
According to the American Cancer Society, over 1,600 people in the United States die from cancer every day, many of whom were receiving the current standard of care, which is radiation, chemotherapy, or a combination of both. Thomas Seyfried is a professor in the biology department at Boston College and strong proponent of using metabolic therapy as a form of treatment for every type of cancer, arguing that it's more effective and less toxic than radiation and chemotherapy.
So, what exactly does metabolic therapy entail? It's based on a simple concept: growth requires fuel, so in order to stop the growth of cancer cells, their sources of fuel--namely glucose and glutamine--must be reduced or eliminated. Reducing the availability of glucose and glutamine results in an increase in ketones, which can be effectively used by the body's normal cells but not by cancer cells. Seyfried explains how the primary difference between cancer cells and normal cells makes this an effective form of treatment for cancer, discusses how to achieve a state of therapeutic ketosis, and describes what to do once a state of therapeutic ketosis has been achieved.
He also explains what's standing in the way of widespread implementation of metabolic therapy in modern medicine, and the main problem with the gene theory of cancer and personalized targeted therapy for cancer. "The whole paradigm has to change, the whole concept of what people view cancer as has to change before we understand how much more effectively we can build therapies that don't harm anybody," says Seyfried. Tune in for the full conversation, and check out his book, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer.
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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. My guest is Thomas Seifred. |
| 0:32.0 | He's a professor at the biology department and he works on |
| 0:36.8 | therapy and cancer prevention, metabolic therapy and how it affects cancer. So Thomas, how you doing today? |
| 0:43.0 | I'm doing well, thank you. |
| 0:44.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.6 | So tell me a bit about your background. |
| 0:47.8 | What got you into this particular area of research? |
| 0:51.1 | Well, we've been doing research on metabolic therapies for a variety of different diseases for decades. |
| 0:59.0 | We did a lot of work on the field of epilepsy and ketogenic diets, mapping genes and all these kinds of things. |
| 1:06.0 | We had been doing work on calorie restriction as a therapy for cancer as well as epilepsy, as well as for some other neurodegenerative diseases such |
| 1:16.8 | as autism and you know Taysack's disease and these kinds of things things but you know one thing led to another and it became clear as to how metabolic therapy could be the I think the most effective way to manage cancer and then we and then we |
| 1:35.1 | underline I mean we define the molecular and physiological mechanisms by |
| 1:39.7 | which this all works and then one thing led to another. So let's get into the details a little bit. So metabolic |
| 1:47.6 | therapy you mentioned can be calorie restriction. What else is classified as a metabolic therapy? |
| 1:53.0 | Well, metabolic therapy is a broad, you know, as if you would use, if you were to say chemotherapy, |
| 1:59.0 | you know, you can say what is that, you know, it's many different kinds of chemicals that are used to stop the |
| 2:05.2 | proliferation in one way or another of cancer cells you know metabolic therapy you |
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