Travis Christofferson-Understanding and Treating Cancer Epigenetics, Metabolic Therapy, and Repurposed Drugs
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
What's the ultimate cause of cancer? It's not an easy question to answer, and according to Travis Christofferson, author of Tripping Over the Truth: The Return of the Metabolic Theory of Cancer, there's no single cause, but a series of complex interactions and events that depend at least somewhat on our environment. Christofferson explains this in terms of epigenetic responses, which result in the turning off or on of certain genes--allowing some to be expressed and blocking others from being expressed. Diet, toxins, medications, and even loneliness are just a few of the factors that could trigger epigenetic responses and ultimately contribute to the determination of whether or not someone will develop cancer.
Christofferson offers an insightful conversation that touches on a range of topics, including the benefits of using metabolic therapy in conjunction with chemotherapy and radiation, the therapeutical differential between cancer cells and healthy cells that's produced by the ketogenic diet, the use of aerobic glycolysis by cancer cells as opposed to oxidative pathways (the Warburg effect) and how this can be taken advantage of in the treatment of cancer, how and why the repurposing of drugs--in particular Metformin--holds promise as a form of cancer treatment, and why brain cancers seem to be most responsive to metabolic therapies.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
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| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | My guest is Travis Christaperson, author of Tripping Over the Truth, the metabolic theory of cancer. |
| 0:36.0 | So Travis, thanks for coming. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm really glad you're here. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, nice to be here. |
| 0:39.0 | Thanks Richard. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, tell me, I found that people work in fields like this, unfortunately, usually because they've had some kind of personal experience with what they write about. |
| 0:49.0 | I hope that's not the case, but what's your background? what got you into looking at you know |
| 0:53.4 | cancer and metabolic therapy you know for me for me it was just a genuine |
| 0:58.0 | curiosity of the subject and just a true fascination with that there could be an alternative explanation for |
| 1:06.0 | what the basic fundamental biology of cancer was. |
| 1:09.9 | So it's kind of a collision of a school graduate research project and running into Tom Safer's |
| 1:18.8 | book, Cancer is a metabolic disease for that project is really what kicked it off for me. |
| 1:24.0 | My undergrad was in pre-med. |
| 1:28.0 | And so everything that I had learned prior to that |
| 1:32.0 | was what was in textbooks which was cancers of genetic |
| 1:34.9 | disease caused by chem mutations to oncogenes and and then Tom's book which is |
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