Episode Highlights With Thomas Seyfried
- What cancer actually is and why it isn’t just genetic
- How mitochondria function is a big factor in the cancer equation
- What the Warburg study is and what it shows us about how cancer happens
- Why cyanide kills healthy cells but not tumor cells
- Cancer cells don’t use oxygen for energy, and what they use instead
- Warburg: cancer cells replace oxygen energy with fermentation energy
- How cancer cells use oxygen, not for energy but to create reactive oxygen species
- The only two fuels cancer cells use: glucose and the amino acid glutamine (both fermentable)
- His opinion: target the glucose and the glutamine simultaneously while transitioning the body to ketones
- The biggest cancer breakthrough in the last few decades? Reduction in smoking
- What are the root causes of cancer as a metabolic disease
- Provocative agents that increase the risk of cancer: chronic inflammation, age, carcinogenic chemicals, viruses, age, genes (like BRCA1)
- How to keep your mitochondria healthy to reduce the risk of cancer “Our genes are supremely capable of preventing cancer”
- Why he recommends periodic water fasting for mitochondria health
- How exercise helps support mitochondria
- What ketones are and why they are a super fuel for the body
- How to address the glutamine side of cancer cells
- What glutamine-targeting drugs are
- Why his approach is getting rid of cancer without the toxicity
- The reason that traditional cancer treatment like chemo and radiation can be more effective when used with metabolic therapies
- What he would do if he had cancer
“We can reduce the death rate by 50% if you view the tumor as a metabolic problem rather than a genetic problem” – Thomas Seyfried
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